From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 14:40:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E7216A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779D343D1D for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.91] ([66.127.85.91]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i3FLe8iJ089931 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:41:34 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040415210524.84611.qmail@web41701.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040415210524.84611.qmail@web41701.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404151441.34208.sam@errno.com> cc: Steve G Subject: Re: Atheros 5212 on a Fujitsu S6120 laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:40:10 -0000 On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:05 pm, Steve G wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my laptop. Everything seems > to work pretty well, but I can't get the wireless card to work (it's an > internal mini-PCI card). Looking through the forum posts, I found I had to > set the loader.conf options to > > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 > > This statement was to allow the computer to even boot in order to install > 5.2.1. > > I've scoured the web and this list trying to find possible solutions, but I > can't seem to find any answers. The specific error I get by using 'dmesg' > is > > ath0: mem 0xd0200000-0xd020ffff irq 11 at device 13.0 > on pci1 ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 4.6 > ath0: unable to collect channel list from hal > device_probe_and_attach: ath0 attach returned 22 > > I checked my kernel to make certain that it was compiled with support for > the atheros card. I'm at a total impasse at the moment. Can anyone give > me some suggestions on what to do? Can anyone tell me what the returned 22 > means? I can't seem to find any documentation on that particular error > either. I'd love to get the wireless working properly! Stephen G I'm not sure you're actually talking to the h/w. The 5ghz radio h/w revision (4.6) is unknown to me and likely bogus. As a result the HAL is unable to do it's thing and the driver bails. Not sure what to suggest other than to look "upstream" (e.g. to your pci config hack). Sam