Setting up atheros (168c:001c) wireless NIC in FreeBSD

[Sam Leffler]

Ashish Shukla ???? ????? wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just booted with 8.0-CURRENT :) . And expecting my Atheros 802.11
> a/b/g Wireless NIC to work with the latest HAL and driver, but to my
> surprise it isn't even able to scan :( .
>
> ----8<----8<----
> % pciconf -l
> hostb0 at pci0:0:0:0:      class=0x060000 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x2a008086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> vgapci0 at pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x2a028086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> vgapci1 at pci0:0:2:1:     class=0x038000 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x2a038086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> hdac0 at pci0:0:27:0:      class=0x040300 card=0x505114f1 chip=0x284b8086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> pcib1 at pci0:0:28:0:      class=0x060400 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x283f8086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01
> uhci0 at pci0:0:29:0:      class=0x0c0300 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x28308086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> uhci1 at pci0:0:29:1:      class=0x0c0300 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x28318086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> uhci2 at pci0:0:29:2:      class=0x0c0300 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x28328086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> ehci0 at pci0:0:29:7:      class=0x0c0320 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x28368086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> pcib2 at pci0:0:30:0:      class=0x060401 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x24488086 rev=0xf3 hdr=0x01
> isab0 at pci0:0:31:0:      class=0x060100 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x28158086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> atapci0 at pci0:0:31:1:    class=0x01018a card=0x30d9103c chip=0x28508086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> atapci1 at pci0:0:31:2:    class=0x010601 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x28298086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> none0 at pci0:0:31:3:      class=0x0c0500 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x283e8086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> ath0 at pci0:1:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x137b103c chip=0x001c168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> rl0 at pci0:2:1:0: class=0x020000 card=0x30d9103c chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
> % dmesg|tail -11
> ath_hal: 0.10.5.6 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0x91300000-0x9130ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2
> ath0: detached
> ath_hal: 0.10.5.10 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0x91300000-0x9130ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2
>
> % ifconfig ath0
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>         ether 00:1f:3a:1a:50:b3
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>         status: no carrier
>
> % sudo ifconfig ath0 scan
> Password:
> ifconfig: unable to get scan results
>
> % sudo ifconfig ath0 bgscan
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
>
> % sudo ifconfig wlan create wlandev ath0
> wlan0
>
> % sudo wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> Trying to associate with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 (SSID='18-B-PARVATIYA' freq=2437 MHz)
> Authentication with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 timed out.
> Trying to associate with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 (SSID='18-B-PARVATIYA' freq=2437 MHz)
> Authentication with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 timed out.
> Trying to associate with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 (SSID='18-B-PARVATIYA' freq=2437 MHz)
> Authentication with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 timed out.
> Trying to associate with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 (SSID='18-B-PARVATIYA' freq=2437 MHz)
> Authentication with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 timed out.
> Trying to associate with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 (SSID='18-B-PARVATIYA' freq=2437 MHz)
> Authentication with 00:1e:2a:76:f4:60 timed out.
> ---->8---->8----
>
> I've tested my wireless NIC working fine in Gentoo GNU/Linux with
> ath_hal 0.10.5.6. And in FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT, I've tried both versions
> of ath_hal (i.e. 0.10.5.6 and 0.10.5.10), but no success. BtW, I've
> loaded wlan_tkip, wlan_ccmp, and wlan_wep kernel modules.
>
> Any ideas how to get this wireless NIC working in FreeBSD 8-CURRENT ?
>   
amd64 or i386?

Sam