Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:20:48 GMT From: Keith Jeffries<seawolf_42@excite.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/105967: ATH driver unable to reset D-Link DWL-530 (Atheros 5212 chip) Message-ID: <200611281820.kASIKmjt028254@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200611281830.kASIUG8C089432@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 105967
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: ATH driver unable to reset D-Link DWL-530 (Atheros 5212 chip)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 28 18:30:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Keith Jeffries
>Release: 6.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD portroyal.jolirouge.org 6.1-SECURITY FreeBSD 6.1-SECURITY #0: Mon Aug 28 05:21:08 UTC 2006 root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
The D-Link DWL-530 wireless card uses the Atheros 5212 chip, but the ATH driver is unable to reset the chip during hardware initialization; the card is therefore unusable.
Relevant output from dmesg:
portroyal# dmesg | grep ath0
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe9000000-0xe900ffff at device 15.0 on pci0
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:13:46:9a:28:5c
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 5 (2432 Mhz, flags 0x3e0 hal flags 0x140)
ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 12
ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 12
ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 12
>From the ATH driver page:
ath%d: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel %u (%u Mhz) The Atheros
Hardware Access Layer was unable to reset the hardware when switching
channels during scanning. This should not happen.
...
ath%d: unable to reset hardware; hal status %u The Atheros Hardware
Access Layer was unable to reset the hardware as requested. The status
code is explained in the HAL include file sys/contrib/dev/ath/ah.h. This
should not happen.
>How-To-Repeat:
install the wireless card on a generic i386 system running 6.1-RELEASE
enable the Atheros driver in /boot/loader.conf
>Fix:
unknown
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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