Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:41:34 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: Steve G <ryvn@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Atheros 5212 on a Fujitsu S6120 laptop Message-ID: <200404151441.34208.sam@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20040415210524.84611.qmail@web41701.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:05 pm, Steve G wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my laptop. Everything seems > to work pretty well, but I can't get the wireless card to work (it's an > internal mini-PCI card). Looking through the forum posts, I found I had to > set the loader.conf options to > > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 > > This statement was to allow the computer to even boot in order to install > 5.2.1. > > I've scoured the web and this list trying to find possible solutions, but I > can't seem to find any answers. The specific error I get by using 'dmesg' > is > > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xd0200000-0xd020ffff irq 11 at device 13.0 > on pci1 ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 4.6 > ath0: unable to collect channel list from hal > device_probe_and_attach: ath0 attach returned 22 > > I checked my kernel to make certain that it was compiled with support for > the atheros card. I'm at a total impasse at the moment. Can anyone give > me some suggestions on what to do? Can anyone tell me what the returned 22 > means? I can't seem to find any documentation on that particular error > either. I'd love to get the wireless working properly! Stephen G I'm not sure you're actually talking to the h/w. The 5ghz radio h/w revision (4.6) is unknown to me and likely bogus. As a result the HAL is unable to do it's thing and the driver bails. Not sure what to suggest other than to look "upstream" (e.g. to your pci config hack). Samhome | help
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