Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:52:20 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Atheros wireless problems. Message-ID: <1222635140.46610.0.camel@jill.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <20080928134858.GO89204@e.0x20.net> References: <1222317948.1740.10.camel@jill.exit.com> <48DBB3EF.3060909@freebsd.org> <1222560406.89800.10.camel@jill.exit.com> <20080928134858.GO89204@e.0x20.net>
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On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 15:48 +0200, Lars Engels wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 05:06:46PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 08:53 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > > > Frank Mayhar wrote: > > > > So I obtained a D-Link DWL-AG660 cardbus card, which has a 5213 (I > > > > believe) Atheros chipset in it; it's an a/b/g card. This is to use > > > > while the chipset embedded in my laptop isn't supported. It came today, > > > > I installed it tonight and, well, problems. > > > The status codes look bogus. In 0.10.5.10 there is a code path through > > > reset where status is not set if the chip is not brought out of low > > > power mode. Why this might happen is beyond me (could be a cardbus > > > problem) but if you initialize status to a known value before the hal > > > calls that are failing this might confirm that as the problem. I've > > > fixed the hal fwiw. > > > > That's definitely not the problem, it seems. I modified the driver to > > zero 'status' in each of the routines that emit the message. When I ran > > it today, it emitted the 'device timeout' and 'unable to reset hardware' > > messages: > > > > [...] > > > Anything else I might try? > > Are you running hald? I have the same error messages and can work around > that problem by inserting the wireless card after hald is started. How very very weird. That worked. Why might this be? It's quite clearly a driver/application problem of some kind... -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ http://www.zazzle.com/fmayhar*
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