Re: ath(4) at boot time

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Jul 2007 19:01:42 GMT, Francis Gudin <fgudin@nerim.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all: Thanks for the recent cardbus/pccard update ! Now, my
> DLink DWL-G650 is functional (before that, it just kept saying "HAL
> status 3", that's now fixed).
>
> I've hit a small hurdle though: even if 'if_ath_load="YES"' is present
> into /boot/loader.conf (and the loader indeed does its job, loading
> if_ath.ko, wlan.ko, ath_hal.ko and ath_rate.ko), it seems cardbus(4)
> doesn't handle the probe to ath(4) resulting in the following during
> kernel init:
>
>  cardbus0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x168c, dev=0x0013) at 0.0 irq 222

mmm, I think the modules are not correctly loaded.  What's your
kldstat output when you logged in the box but before the second
'kldload if_ath'?

Best Regards,
sephe

> When logged in, I can issue "kldload if_ath", without behind insulted
> ("File exists"), and the kernel loads *again* those 4 modules and
> detects the card properly:
>
>  ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
>  ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88010000-0x8801ffff irq 10 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
>  ath0: MAC address: 00:0f:3d:ab:ce:f4
>  ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6

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