uathload(8)

uathload8

Load firmware for atheros usb wireless devices

Usage

uathload [-v] -d ugen-device [firmware-file]

Overview

The uathload utility provides a way to load the firmware for Atheros USB wireless devices with AR5005UG and AR5005UX chipsets.

The following options are accepted.

-d ugen-device

Use a specific ugen(4) device.

-v

Enable debugging messages.

If firmware-file is specified uathload tries to load it instead of the built-in firmware image.

Examples

Load the built-in firmware image into a specific ugen(4) device:

uathload -d /dev/ugen0.2

Releases

39 releases since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE; the text changed 27 times.

  1. 8.0
  2. 8.1
  3. 8.2
  4. 8.3
  5. 8.4
  6. 9.0
  7. 9.1
  8. 9.2
  9. 9.3
  10. 10.0
  11. 10.1
  12. 10.2
  13. 10.3
  14. 10.4
  15. 11.0
  16. 11.1
  17. 11.2
  18. 11.3
  19. 11.4
  20. 12.0
  21. 12.1
  22. 12.2
  23. 12.3
  24. 12.4
  25. 13.0–13.2
  26. 13.3–14.3
  27. 14.4–14.5
  28. 15.0–16.0

Authors

Weongyo Jeong

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.