Re: Atheros 5212 on a Fujitsu S6120 laptop

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).

	Sam
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