Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:31:07 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE Message-ID: <4857D8BB.1080901@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3c0b01820806170757v5565b59ne0e9d5db06f26761@mail.gmail.com> References: <3c0b01820806170757v5565b59ne0e9d5db06f26761@mail.gmail.com>
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Alexander Sack wrote: > Hello: > > I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based > notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic embedded > controller. During boot up I notice that ATH complains with: > > ath_rate: version 1.2 <SampleRate bit-rate selection algorithm> > ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) > ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xfd7f0000-0xfd7fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 > ath0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfd7f0000 > ath0: [MPSAFE] > ath0: [ITHREAD] > ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 > device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 > > HAL status 13 from the header file seems to indicate that the > 7.0-STABLE driver doesn't support my hardware revision. Here is my > pciconf -l output: > Maybe you could try compiling a kernel with a newer hal. This is the kind of hack we use on the eeepc. Have a look at this: http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD
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