From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 19:13:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC61E16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:13:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A1C43D1D for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:13:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i75J8ohK070211; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:08:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i75JBtD4096587; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i75JBlOI096586; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:11:44 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Sam Leffler Message-ID: <20040805191144.GA52101@tao.thought.org> References: <50138.151.204.154.241.1090701435.squirrel@el.net> <1303.151.204.154.241.1090815511.squirrel@el.net> <49251.24.90.34.93.1091730138.squirrel@el.net> <200408051134.16136.sam@errno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408051134.16136.sam@errno.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: kalin mintchev cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath card problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:13:22 -0000 On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:34:16AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:22 am, kalin mintchev wrote: > > ok. for the last almost 3 weeks i've been trying to get the ath0 driver to > > work properly with the dlink dwl-ag650 card i got for my t20 thinkpad with > > 5.2.1. > > it kinda works sometimes. that sometimes is driving me nuts. i understand > > that there is the possibility that i'm really retarded and not being able > > to make a simple piece of hardware work properly on this laptop. usually > > that's not the case but for some reason this piece of hardware has been > > very stubborn. i have to say that unfortunately it works with no problem > > on a windows laptop with the windows driver. > > > > all that being said can somebody explain the outputs below. > > ifconfig says it's associated but appears that it's not really. that > > happens a lot. i tried 2 different access points. did reset the routers > > about a dozen times. i'm back at the point where i'm about the rip this > > card off the machine and trow it against the wall and then burn it until > > it converts to a fluid... > > The dwl-ag650 card has a chip in it that requires a more up to date hal to > operate well. Otherwise you should not get errors reseting the part but > since the FreeBSD code is so ancient (probably a year behind the current > state of Atheros support) it's likely that one of a zillion changes have > dealt with the issue. > > I have asked for help in updating the Atheros code but gotten few responses > (none of which have produced something committable). I am in the process of > releasing yet another new hal and may have a few days to try and update the > FreeBSD code to include it. Otherwise you can always use the ndis support to > run the windows driver. > I'll thow this out just for WIW. I had similar problems in getting my Xircom "Cardbus" too see my DSL link on my Thinkpad 600E. After help from people on -mobile, this make things work:: In /boot/loader.conf hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000" hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix