Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:51:10 +0200 From: Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> To: frank@exit.com Cc: Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Atheros wireless problems. Message-ID: <20080929075110.8f6vo3zus08kwss0@0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <1222635140.46610.0.camel@jill.exit.com> References: <1222317948.1740.10.camel@jill.exit.com> <48DBB3EF.3060909@freebsd.org> <1222560406.89800.10.camel@jill.exit.com> <20080928134858.GO89204@e.0x20.net> <1222635140.46610.0.camel@jill.exit.com>
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This message is in MIME format and has been PGP signed. --=_28kvy3pvvqv4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoting Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>: > 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 =20 >> came today, >> > > > I installed it tonight and, well, problems. >> > > The status codes look bogus. In 0.10.5.10 there is a code path throu= gh >> > > 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 ra= n >> > 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... I don't know. I brought this up some time ago but noone had a clue... It would be nice to find out how to prevent hald probing the cardbus, =20 so you could insert the card before starting hald. --=_28kvy3pvvqv4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: Digitale PGP-Unterschrift Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkjgbM4ACgkQKc512sD3afh2cACgkrnNXf0hek8fozB2eYrS7nyC ad0AoJn3BnzTNj6WNZ4wf/Fp23cSdaUT =cy3I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_28kvy3pvvqv4--
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