From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 03:07:24 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 A3966106566B for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 03:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2278FC12 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 03:07:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so5475424vws.13 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:07:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=mfJT+nFgQK2cHMyc15F2FrdyCxv0gzdPCePhhrlHJ5A=; b=vpwsQqy2wuprCPf38hpoZc0L6kl0L84djEEwGa12O5f6C0imrEL9jGU8iCfxiaV1FK BsvjNQy4RoL9jgQ3/wJWqXkc6Ef4YecNO96AJaGEi3CbpyHRe1u+aEphwTQr6JqCIA76 1VkWTJfeJ1saHD2X0md+zEkhRssvXSOlqevA4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.27.36 with SMTP id q4mr3923040vdg.296.1312168043480; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.161.165 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:07:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110801030140.GA31782@richh-desktop.boxdice.com.au> References: <20110801005639.GB20219@richh-desktop.boxdice.com.au> <20110801030140.GA31782@richh-desktop.boxdice.com.au> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:07:23 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Em_Fo0qrFMmv2JMbFMeihKP6q-g Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: richo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 03:07:24 -0000 On 1 August 2011 11:01, richo wrote: > This is true. I surmised that either the issue was widespread and so it'd > get > reported, or it was just me and probably self-inflicted ;) I don't have that issue on my netbooks. I thus can't fix it. :) >> This isn't the first time I've heard about strange issues like this; >> it almost always boils down to something strange in PCI/ACPI handling. > > I did some more reading about FreeBSD's wireless support just now, it looks > like maybe a missing device wlan > could be the issue, however I'll build a kernel with the broken config > tonight and posts boot info. > > IIRC it's hal attach returned 6, and another error 3. I went looking for > them > in sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.h but couldn't work out what I was looking for > (Very new to kernel dev, in case you'd not guessed :] ) the attach is the device attach - ar5210Attach, ar5212Attach .. ar9280Attach, etc. See what that function returns. :) Adrian