Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:26:06 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Atheros card, regression? Layer 8 problem? Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmon%2BJ6%2BudCoqABpe8CJA-V67w%2B7s1A9Cfcyq40rTwrYiTA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <188790082.20121202234216@takeda.tk> References: <188790082.20121202234216@takeda.tk>
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Hi, If it's not recognising the card then it's either a whacky PCI bus code problem, or the device is just plainly not being seen by the motherboard or BIOS. Can you try booting Linux and see if it sees the PCI device? Adrian On 2 December 2012 23:42, Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk> wrote: > Hello Adrian, > > I'm having some issues with a NIC card that worked fine in another > FreeBSD box (very old hardware - Celeron 366MHz :) that was running > version 8. > > The box died, and I decided to just move the card to recent machine > (running FreeBSD 9.1 RC3). > > Unfortunately the machine does not recognize the card, I asked on the > forum, and person trying to help me thinks that perhaps it is a bug: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=36099 > > I thought initially that I couldn't see the card even in pciconf, but > seems like the card probably is: > > none3@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3a131186 chip=0x00130000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > class = network > subclass = ethernet > cap 01[44] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 > > I tried to follow his advice and changed value of AR5212_DEVID to > 0x0000 but that did not seem to do anything (I recompiled if_ath and > if_ath_pci). > > So I went further and modified ar5212Probe() > and put a printf() statement there (as a first instruction). > Unfortunately it doesn't look that the statement was ever called, or > at least I did not see anything in the logs. > > I decided to not file PR because there is still a possibility I might > be doing something wrong. I configured that old machine a while ago > and I no longer have access to it's contents :/ > > The old machine was running i386 kernel, the new one is running amd64. > The new one has Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H motherboard and the NIC in > question is D-Link, I belive DWL-G520. > -- > Best regards, > Derek mailto:takeda@takeda.tk > > -- I can see clearly now, the brain is gone... >
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