Re: ath: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3; attach returned 6
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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In message: <[email protected]> Sam Leffler <[email protected]> writes: : This is likely a cardbus issue. The hal status code is: : : HAL_EIO = 3, /* Hardware didn't respond as expected */ : : (look in sys/contrib/dev/ath/ah.h) and it typically means the sanity : check/self test done at startup failed. : : For fun you might check if the cardbus chip on the two laptops are : different. Warner just recently fixed some cardbus issues in HEAD (w/ : Ricoh bridge chips I believe) but the symptoms were different. Yes. The problem would be that the card didn't show up at all, even when you enabled CardBus debugging... This was a power issue where we were accessing the card before it was powered up. That's not to say that there isn't another CardBus problem... Warner : Sam : : Ian wrote: : > I am running the latest ath_hal from http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ : > : > I likely should have mentioned that in the first place : > : > The wireless card is picked up fine when I move the harddrive to another : > laptop. Which : > would likely rule out the possibility that the issue is within the chipset : > (unless I am : > severely misguided, which I won't rule out). : > : > Also I am running a generic kernel of FreeBSD-7.0 STABLE (though the issue : > was still there when : > I had RELEASE running) : > : > : > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Ashish Shukla आशीष श�क�ल <wahjava.ml@ : > gmail.com> wrote: : > : > : >> Ian writes: : >> : >>> Goal: : >>> to have Wireless Atheros based NIC run on my Sony Vaio : >>> : >>> Background: : >>> : >>> The computer in question is a Sony Vaio PCG R505-JL w/ slimdock. The : >>> : >> CD-ROM : >> : >>> is broken. : >>> I used a second computer and installed it on the second computer, then : >>> transfered the : >>> hard drive to the vaio. : >>> : >>> This problem is not present on the computer I installed it on. The card : >>> works Out-of box. : >>> : >>> dmesg output: : >>> : >> [snip] : >> : >> : >>> ath0: <Atheros 2413> mem 0xf4110000-0xf411ffff irq 9 at device 0.0 on : >>> cardbus0 : >>> ath0: [ITHREAD] : >>> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3 : >>> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 : >>> : >> Above output indicates, wireless chip not accepting the HAL : >> firmware. You can try the latest HAL available from following URL: : >> : >> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Esam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz> : >> : >> HTH : >> Ashish Shukla : >> -- : >> ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- : >> : >> : >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ : >> : >> _______________________________________________ : >> [email protected] mailing list : >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile : >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" : : _______________________________________________ : [email protected] mailing list : http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile : To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" : _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"