From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 02:37:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799CD16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:37:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40AD43D31 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:37:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4180DFE642; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 03:37:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41DDF5F5.707@locolomo.org> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 03:37:41 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mo Po References: <1105064318.5088.12.camel@liber> In-Reply-To: <1105064318.5088.12.camel@liber> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atheros (ath) wifi driver problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:37:45 -0000 Mo Po wrote: > Hello, > > I installed FreeBSD 5.3 today (coming from linux/debian). > I need to use the atheros wifi driver (man page ATH(4)), which is > included in 5.3. (I have an atheros based PCI card in an athlon xp based > system). > > I get the following error when loading the module ('kldload if_ath' > command): > ... > ath0: could not map interrupt > device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 > > After that ifconfig fails tp 'up' the ath0 i/f ('does not exists'). > > The ATH(4) lists this error but just says it should never happen ;-) > The same card/madwifi driver works under linux. > > Any help appreciated a lot - otherwise my FreeBSD venture will be rather > short lived. I think this problem or related has been noted before, but please submit some more info of what you do - copy/paste the command/output if you can. Try doing it all when the system is freshly booted, I wrote about some memory problems about a month ago if I tried to insert/configure my ath based card after starting memory heavy programs like mozilla. That problem has been resolved in 6.0 but the code may not yet have been merged into -STABLE. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2