From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 06:37:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEF016A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:37:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from e4500a.callatg.com (e4500a.atgi.net [216.174.194.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD94643D58 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:37:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mopo@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 25766 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2005 06:37:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO micron.home.org) (216.210.171.117) by e4500a.atgi.net with SMTP; 7 Jan 2005 06:37:37 -0000 Received: from liber (liber.home.org [192.168.1.100]) by micron.home.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161168237B; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:37:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by liber (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D99B9D805D; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:37:36 -0800 (PST) From: Mo Po To: Doug Poland In-Reply-To: <20050107053648.GA297@polands.org> References: <1105064318.5088.12.camel@liber> <20050107053648.GA297@polands.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:37:36 -0800 Message-Id: <1105079856.8367.10.camel@liber> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atheros (ath) wifi driver problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:37:38 -0000 Doug, Thanks - I tried but did not help. The mobo is AN35N Ultra. The exact error is: kldload if_ath ath0: mem 0xe7000000-0xe700ffff irq 7 at device 8.0 on pci1 ath0: could not map interrupt device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 I upgraded to something called RELENG_5 but it did not help (but now the onboard NVIDIA ether driver does not build ;-) I am running no GUI but command line only (yes I go back that long ago:-) On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:36 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:18:38PM -0800, Mo Po wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I installed FreeBSD 5.3 today (coming from linux/debian). > > I need to use the atheros wifi driver (man page ATH(4)), which is > > included in 5.3. (I have an atheros based PCI card in an athlon xp based > > system). > > > > I get the following error when loading the module ('kldload if_ath' > > command): > > ... > > ath0: could not map interrupt > > device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 > > > > After that ifconfig fails tp 'up' the ath0 i/f ('does not exists'). > > > You may have already checked this, but be sure that "Plug and Play OS" > is "NO" in your BIOS. I've seen weird things happen w/PCI cards > when this BIOS setting is on. HTH > -- Mo Po