Re: ath(4) major update

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/6/07, Ja'far Railton <ibn.richard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think HAL can return such a large error code, there must be
> > something out of sync.  Can you post the full dmesg?
>
> (First, I think there may have been a problem with the TERM setting.
> I have it back on cons25 now. I don't know if that could have been
> responsible for the weird HAL error.)
>
> Here's the last two dmesgs (they differ). Do you smell a hardware
> problem here?

. ..

> Preloaded elf module "/modules/if_ath.ko" at 0xc04db260.
> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> Preloaded elf module "/modules/ath_rate.ko" at 0xc04db308.
> Preloaded elf module "/modules/ath_hal.ko" at 0xc04db3b4.

. ..

> cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0xff
> cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=10000
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88010000-0x8801ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 14
> device_probe_and_attach: ath0 attach returned 6

HAL status 14 is card "self test fail" :(

> I would also like to check something. You may have noted that I'm using
> Preview now instead of Release. I applied the ath0 and cbb patches but
> not the sample.h.diff patch. Is that right?

As long as the ath patch applies cleanly, it will not be problem.

Best Regards,
sephe

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