From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 05:51:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD85106568D; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lme@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.ipv6.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8018FC28; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lme@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.67.217]) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639A83A6B0; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:51:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 193.109.238.110 ([193.109.238.110]) by 0x20.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:51:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20080929075110.8f6vo3zus08kwss0@0x20.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:51:10 +0200 From: Lars Engels To: frank@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> In-Reply-To: <1222635140.46610.0.camel@jill.exit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_28kvy3pvvqv4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.3) Cc: Sam Leffler , freebsd-mobile Subject: Re: Atheros wireless problems. X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:51:11 -0000 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 : > 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--