From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 01:23:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBC316A420 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:23:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3616943D58 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:23:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.248] (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jBT1N5iE067254 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <43B33AC7.2040107@errno.com> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:24:23 -0800 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Beech Rintoul References: <200512281439.57713.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200512281439.57713.akbeech@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:23:06 -0000 Beech Rintoul wrote: > I'm trying to get ath working with a D-Link AG530 wireless card on a 6-STABLE > machine. It returns the following: > > Dec 28 12:24:12 pinnacle kernel: ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, > RF5111, RF5112, RF2413) > Dec 28 12:24:12 pinnacle kernel: ath0: mem > 0xcffe0000-0xcffeffff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 > Dec 28 12:24:12 pinnacle kernel: ath0: unable to collect channel list from > hal; regdomain likely 18 country code 0 > Dec 28 12:24:12 pinnacle kernel: device_attach: ath0 attach returned 22 > > This card / driver works perfectly on my -CURRENT box. Is this supported in > -CURRENT only? I don't want to upgrade the box, it's in production and I > can't risk -CURRENT. BTW, this card is not in the supported devices list, but > does work. Is it feasible to move the sources from -CURRENT to this box? If > so which ones? 6-STABLE and CURRENT have the same hal so I don't see how it works differently. Verify the hal versions. Regardless this problem is caused by a batch of cards D-Link created with bogus regulatory domain codes programmed into the EEPROM (they programmed 18 when they probably wanted 16 = FCC). If you search a bit you can find postings that describe how to "fix this". Sam