Re: Atheros wireless problems.

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 05:06:46PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 08:53 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > Frank Mayhar wrote:
> > > So I obtained a D-Link DWL-AG660 cardbus card, which has a 5213 (I
> > > believe) Atheros chipset in it; it's an a/b/g card.  This is to use
> > > while the chipset embedded in my laptop isn't supported.  It came today,
> > > I installed it tonight and, well, problems.
> > The status codes look bogus.  In 0.10.5.10 there is a code path through 
> > reset where status is not set if the chip is not brought out of low 
> > power mode.  Why this might happen is beyond me (could be a cardbus 
> > problem) but if you initialize status to a known value before the hal 
> > calls that are failing this might confirm that as the problem.  I've 
> > fixed the hal fwiw.
> 
> That's definitely not the problem, it seems.  I modified the driver to
> zero 'status' in each of the routines that emit the message.  When I ran
> it today, it emitted the 'device timeout' and 'unable to reset hardware'
> messages:
> 

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> Anything else I might try?

Are you running hald? I have the same error messages and can work around
that problem by inserting the wireless card after hald is started.

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