Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:59:00 -0500 From: "Edwin L. Culp" <eculp@casasponti.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE Message-ID: <20080617135900.18654t73s6d7sfqc@intranet.casasponti.net> In-Reply-To: <3c0b01820806170852t39a6346doa6d77a655469eed9@mail.gmail.com> References: <3c0b01820806170757v5565b59ne0e9d5db06f26761@mail.gmail.com> <4857D8BB.1080901@gmail.com> <3c0b01820806170852t39a6346doa6d77a655469eed9@mail.gmail.com>
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"Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com> escribi=F3: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias =20 > <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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, RF541= 3) >>> 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 > > Thank you SO much for this link. That's EXACTLY what I want to do > because I realize that this is a HAL problem. I've been searching > like MAD where I could get an updated binary HAL for this chipset > (PCIe based). That makes two of us ;) My dmesg is very, very similar to yours and hoped that this would work. ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xf2200000-0xf220ffff irq 19 at device =20 0.0 on pci5 ath0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xf2200000 ioapic0: routing intpin 19 (PCI IRQ 19) to vector 64 ath0: [MPSAFE] ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 I followed the instructions from the web page, recompiled and it made =20 no difference which really worries me that I must have done something =20 wrong. cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007/hal cp -R * /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/ I did not erase it previously but am going to try that. I made no =20 kern configuration changes to find that the hal is from contrib. Is =20 there nothing else I should do? Thanks, ed P.S. Some additional info: # uname -a FreeBSD ed.local.net.mx 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #123: Tue Jun =20 17 12:48:19 CDT 2008 =20 root@ed.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO amd64 from my kernel conf. device ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's device ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) device ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
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