Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:48:19 -0400 From: "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com> To: "Edwin L. Culp" <eculp@casasponti.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE Message-ID: <3c0b01820806171648g7cc01476l30df79831f9b9c6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3c0b01820806171417l2b054e15i5627d88827cc03b4@mail.gmail.com> References: <3c0b01820806170757v5565b59ne0e9d5db06f26761@mail.gmail.com> <4857D8BB.1080901@gmail.com> <3c0b01820806170852t39a6346doa6d77a655469eed9@mail.gmail.com> <20080617135900.18654t73s6d7sfqc@intranet.casasponti.net> <48580EB9.7090701@gmail.com> <20080617143554.1808562gg94i8ikg@intranet.casasponti.net> <3c0b01820806171244g6f2ba46ybe0ba6d89eaab13b@mail.gmail.com> <3c0b01820806171417l2b054e15i5627d88827cc03b4@mail.gmail.com>
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Final update, I got everything working! I came home and connected by new notebook using the latest PCIe Atheros chipset to a WPA2 network using wpa_supplicant! Yippie! Hope this thread helps someone else, -aps On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com> wrot= e: >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Edwin L. Culp <eculp@casasponti.net> wr= ote: >>> "Manolis Kiagias" <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> escribi=F3: >>> >>>> Edwin L. Culp wrote: >>>>> >>>>> "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com> escribi=F3: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias >>>>>> <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Alexander Sack wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon b= ased >>>>>>>> notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic embedded >>>>>>>> controller. During boot up I notice that ATH complains with: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ath_rate: version 1.2 <SampleRate bit-rate selection algorithm> >>>>>>>> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, >>>>>>>> RF5413) >>>>>>>> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xfd7f0000-0xfd7fffff irq 16 at devi= ce >>>>>>>> 0.0 >>>>>>>> on pci2 >>>>>>>> ath0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfd7f0000 >>>>>>>> ath0: [MPSAFE] >>>>>>>> ath0: [ITHREAD] >>>>>>>> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 >>>>>>>> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> HAL status 13 from the header file seems to indicate that the >>>>>>>> 7.0-STABLE driver doesn't support my hardware revision. Here is m= y >>>>>>>> pciconf -l output: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Maybe you could try compiling a kernel with a newer hal. This is th= e >>>>>>> kind of >>>>>>> hack we use on the eeepc. Have a look at this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you SO much for this link. That's EXACTLY what I want to do >>>>>> because I realize that this is a HAL problem. I've been searching >>>>>> like MAD where I could get an updated binary HAL for this chipset >>>>>> (PCIe based). >>>>> >>>>> That makes two of us ;) >>>>> >>>>> My dmesg is very, very similar to yours and hoped that this would wor= k. >>>>> >>>>> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xf2200000-0xf220ffff irq 19 at device = 0.0 >>>>> on pci5 >>>>> ath0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xf2200000 >>>>> ioapic0: routing intpin 19 (PCI IRQ 19) to vector 64 >>>>> ath0: [MPSAFE] >>>>> ath0: [ITHREAD] >>>>> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 >>>>> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 >>>>> >>>>> I followed the instructions from the web page, recompiled and it made= no >>>>> difference which really worries me that I must have done something wr= ong. >>>>> >>>>> cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007/hal >>>>> cp -R * /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/ >>>>> >>>>> I did not erase it previously but am going to try that. I made no k= ern >>>>> configuration changes to find that the hal is from contrib. Is there >>>>> nothing else I should do? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>> >>>> Well, I have only tested this on the eeepc and can confirm it works. >>>> Maybe different atheros chipset have other problems not directly relat= ed >>>> to the hal version. >>>> You do not need to do anything more that what is shown in the page: un= tar, >>>> replace the existing files, recompile / install kernel, reboot. If you= got >>>> no errors during the kernel compilation phase, you can safely assume y= ou did >>>> everything correctly, and the problem lies elsewhere. >>> >>> At least there was a ray of hope for the time it took to compile the ke= rnel. >> >> Ed: >> >> I took recompiled and got the same issue. If I use the LATEST mad >> distro I get some compile bugs (ath_desc_status was moved into >> ath_desc structure in ah_desc.h) which I can't completely work around >> (apparently the API into the HAL has changed as well). What I'm >> trying to do is look at the Linux driver and understand the newer API >> in order to get past this compile issue and see if this works. >> Otherwise I believe we are SOL. >> >> Does anyone know if the CURRENT contains an updated ath HAL AND driver >> for support of newer PCIe based chipsets? >> >> If I get it to work I will let you know... >> > > Ok the trick is not to get it from the madfi project. Get it from the > author directly! > > If you grab: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz > > Copy the contents into the src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/* and recompile, > you should now see ath attach properly to the your NIC card. Thanks > go to my friend jkim for pointing this out since he has a similar > notebook/chipset and runs CURRENT successfully. I tried using CURRENT > ath but there is to much vap support in it and it turned out the > 7.0-RELEASE driver works. > > Now ath attaches properly and I'm going to test it out! (this is at > least much further than a bad attach status code from the HAL). > > Let me know how it goes, > > -aps >
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