Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

Luis Neves <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.stable,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yuri Lukin wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:24:40 +0100, Luis Neves wrote

> FWIW, I have a T61 (not the "p" version) with 7.0-PRERELEASE from Oct 15th and
> have an integrated IBM miniPCI card that uses the ath driver without any problems:
> 
> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdf2f0000-0xdf2fffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2
> 
> You should have no issues using the CB21AG adapter under FreeBSD. I have
> several of these and have used them as far back as 6.0-RELEASE on multiple
> laptops without any issues. In fact, I just dug one up and inserted it into my
> T61 and it attached to ath1:
> 
> ath1: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> ath1: [ITHREAD]
> ath1: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath1: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 radio 3.6

Huumm... this is similar output to what i had last week, since then I've updated 
RAM to 4GB (a delicate process, I might have screwed up something) and updated 
FreeBSD a couple of times to the latest RELENG_7.



>> I'm running:
>> uname -a
>>
>> FreeBSD t61p 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #0: Fri Oct 26 13:10:37 
>> WEST 2007 root@t61p:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>> GENERIC kernel with ULE and without debugging.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to diagnose these issues?
>>
> 
> What does dmesg show for "ath" when you boot? Or can you post "pciconf -l -v"?

cardbus:
cbb0@pci0:21:0:0:       class=0x060700 card=0x20c617aa chip=0x04761180 rev=0xba 
hdr=0x02
     vendor     = 'Ricoh Company, Ltd.'
     device     = 'unknown Ricoh R/RL/5C476(II)'
     class      = bridge
     subclass   = PCI-CardBus

"ral" card:
ral0@pci0:22:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x3c001948 chip=0x02011814 rev=0x01 
hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Ralink Technology, Corp'
     device     = '0x03011814 Zonet ZEW1601 (Ralink Chipset) 802.11b/g WLAN Card'
     class      = network

"ath" card
ath0@pci0:22:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0xcb2114b9 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 
hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
     device     = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
     class      = network
     subclass   = ethernet


Thanks for your help!

--
Luis Neves
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.