From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 05:07:35 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 5465516A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:07:35 +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 5A43143D70 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:07:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.199] ([10.0.0.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jBT57RiE068066 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:07:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <43B36ED5.6020300@errno.com> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:06:29 -0800 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Beech Rintoul References: <200512281439.57713.akbeech@gmail.com> <43B33AC7.2040107@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <43B33AC7.2040107@errno.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 05:07:35 -0000 Sam Leffler wrote: > 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". I was wrong. Regdomain code 18 is a new code that enables access to frequencies in the 4.9G range. You need the new hal I've got out for testing. Sam