From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 02:05:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D2E1065674 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 02:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richo@psych0tik.net) Received: from bedford.accountservergroup.com (bedford.accountservergroup.com [50.22.11.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516468FC0C for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 02:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from boxand.lnk.telstra.net ([203.45.130.125] helo=richh-desktop.boxdice.com.au) by bedford.accountservergroup.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QngoG-000Mzf-4W for freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:56:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:56:39 +1000 From: richo To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110801005639.GB20219@richh-desktop.boxdice.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI" Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Key: http://natalya.psych0tik.net/~richo/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bedford.accountservergroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - psych0tik.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Ath works as module, not inkernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:05:14 -0000 --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi -wireless, A while ago I posted with some issues with ath on 9.0-CURRENT, which were fixed by a patch someone posted to the list. A few weeks later, ath broke again and neither a vanilla kernel nor one with the patch worked, complaining of errors attaching HAL. Googling the terms turned up only results from 2008. I didn't have time to look into it so I ignored it, figuring that it would = be fixed in due course and that I'd pull when I had time. Over the weekend I spent some time on the problem, and it appeared that building ath support into the kernel was the issue, my config with > device ath > device ath_pci > device ath_hal (Apologies if that's not spelled correctly, I'm not actually in front of the machine) Doesn't load, however if I removed MODULES_OVERRIDE from make.conf and try = to load those modules, I'm told that it's already in the kernel. I also built GENERIC from the config in SVN and no luck. Finally, I removed those device lines from my config, built with all modules and enabled load_ath and load_ath_pci in loader.conf and wireless now works flawlessly. I'm now curious about why- and what I can do to know how to chase this up myself next time. Cheers richo --=20 richo || Today's excuse:=20 Electromagnetic energy loss --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJONfnHAAoJEIKiWz6J5yQVi6gH/2YUoolvqnT/zjsuxEx6CBvW FFc4x5KYkN6jpYmqZ7jzMAz3Y/+Mlt+9mD4DMAR2tM9rshB3BJioBnziJE1dO5jm eOpWsBanf6ECyyYXzN67wqIlrPjmyWBfEU7Hkkb+2aU7qsjYf5W38pB5aQ1aCa4P oJ5cUTw3M6WyyG5CWfUrhkw76oYyAsTczPZO4j0d/4vrjmG8+jbKwoSwHKUWMQps mss7RQUSt04fIHDl4Nm1TCZrkOa1Kk/I6sFQr9hK55G2MyVbg1MBD1V7uGc+m+jg EQKp9CsIzaHdhCLHaGMogjEfUfDg96lTQBTug8Zbb8RyDnHlYcLzfAi2meGUbDc= =Nt60 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI--