From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Nov 12 03:59:28 2010
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04560106564A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:59:28 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from firas@fkraiem.org)
Received: from smtpfb1-g21.free.fr (smtpfb1-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.9])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726EA8FC0A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:59:25 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (smtp2-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.2])
	by smtpfb1-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A8B2D86A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:43:35 +0100 (CET)
Received: from aoba.local (unknown [88.186.124.91])
	by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938084B001D
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:43:29 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <4CDCB7E0.7060305@fkraiem.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:43:28 +0100
From: Firas Kraiem <firas@fkraiem.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB;
	rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: AR5212 woes
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:59:28 -0000

Hi everyone

I have an Atheros wifi card that is giving me some headaches.  It's
supposed to be an AR5212-based card, and is detected as such, dmesg on
8.1-RELEASE says:

ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xa0010000-0xa001ffff irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: AR5212 mac 5.6 RF5111 phy 4.1

However, when I try to bring it up, no joy:

# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:04:e2:a1:ee:a2
# ifconfig wlan0 up
ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 1 (2412 MHz, flags
0x480),hal status 3

And it continuously sends messages similar to the last one until I
reboot.  I noticed that on the chipset it is written "AR5212A", could it
be a newer "revision" that is incompatible with the driver?  Google
hasn't been of much help.

Thanks

Firas