HEADSUP: uath(4) has been committed.

[Weongyo Jeong]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 03:43:38PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Lucius Windschuh wrote:
> > 2009/4/7 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong at gmail.com>
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> FYI uath(4) driver has been committed into HEAD.  To work with uath(4)
> >> it needs to load the firmware using uathload.  The example would be as
> >> follows:
> >>
> >>        # kldload if_uath
> >>        [plugin Atheros USB stick]
> >>        ugen0.2: <Atheros Communications Inc> at usbus0
> >>        # uathload -d /dev/ugen0.2
> >>        [after downloading the firmware it'll retry to attach]
> >>        # ifconfig uath0
> >>
> >> Normally uathload could be found at /usr/sbin or
> >> /usr/src/usr.sbin/uathload for sources and if you don't want to execute
> >> uathload by hand it'd be better to add a entry into devd.conf(5).
> > 
> > Thanks for porting the driver.
> 
> This is not a port of anyone else's driver.
> 
> 
> > I tried it with a TRENDnet TEW-504UB/EU on CURRENT as of today.
> > But there are a couple of problems with that device:
> > 1. Different product ID
> > My TEW-504UB/EU becomes 0x3207 after loading the firmware. OK, this one is
> > easy to fix:
> > Index: sys/dev/usb/usbdevs
> > ===================================================================
> > --- sys/dev/usb/usbdevs (revision 192196)
> > +++ sys/dev/usb/usbdevs (working copy)
> > @@ -2425,6 +2425,7 @@
> >  product UMEDIA ALL0298V2 0x3204 ALL0298 v2
> >  product UMEDIA AR5523_2 0x3205 AR5523
> >  product UMEDIA AR5523_2_NF 0x3206 AR5523 (no firmware)
> > +product UMEDIA AR5523_3 0x3207 AR5523
> > 
> >  /* Universal Access products */
> >  product UNIACCESS PANACHE 0x0101 Panache Surf USB ISDN Adapter
> > Index: sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_uath.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_uath.c (revision 192196)
> > +++ sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_uath.c (working copy)
> > @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@
> >   UATH_DEV(NETGEAR3, WPN111),
> >   UATH_DEV(UMEDIA, TEW444UBEU),
> >   UATH_DEV(UMEDIA, AR5523_2),
> > + UATH_DEV(UMEDIA, AR5523_3),
> >   UATH_DEV(WISTRONNEWEB, AR5523_1),
> >   UATH_DEV(WISTRONNEWEB, AR5523_2),
> >   UATH_DEV(ZCOM, AR5523)
> > 
> > I don't know why this device has another product ID with a loaded firmware,
> > but perhaps because it is an 802.11a capable device?
> 
> The device works by changing identity once the firmware is downloaded.
> One id is for the stick w/o fw and one for the stick w/ fw loaded and
> running.
> 
> > BTW: the vendor's firmware leads to the known ID (0x3205), but uath bails
> > out:
> > uath0: timeout waiting for reply to cmd 0x1 (1)
> > uath0: could not initialize adapter
> > device_attach: uath0 attach returned 35
> > uath0: timeout waiting for reply to cmd 0x1 (1)
> > uath0: could not initialize adapter
> > device_attach: uath0 attach returned 35
> > ugen4.2: <Atheros Communications Inc> at usbus4 (disconnected)
> > ugen4.2: <Atheros Communications Inc> at usbus4
> 
> You must use the freebsd fw w/ the freebsd driver.
> 
> > 
> > So, now to the second problem:
> > The device works like a charm in 802.11b/g mode (ifconfig wlan0 chanlist
> > 1-13) with FreeBSD's firmware.
> > But 802.11a scanning does not work. Without the chanlist restrictiong, I get
> > the following messages:
> > (plug in the device)
> >   ugen4.2: <Atheros Communications Inc> at usbus4
> > (uathload)
> >   ugen4.2: <Atheros Communications Inc> at usbus4 (disconnected)
> >   ugen4.2: <Atheros Communications Inc> at usbus4
> > (ifconfig wlan create wlandev uath0)
> >   wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:14:d1:c0:23:5f
> > (ifconfig wlan0 up)
> >   uath0: uath_cmdsend: empty inactive queue
> >   uath0: could not init Tx queues, error 55
> >   uath0: uath_cmdsend: empty inactive queue
> >   uath0: could not set channel, error 55
> >   [...]
> >   uath0: could not set channel, error 55
> >   uath0: uath_cmdsend: empty inactive queue
> >   uath0: could not write register 0x08
> >   uath0: uath_cmdsend: empty inactive queue
> >   uath0: could not set channel, error 55
> >   uath0: could not switch channel
> > I'd like to provide additional debugging information. If you need more,
> > please tell me what.
> 
> Known problem.  Weongoy didn't have a dual-band stick and I never had
> time to track down why 5Ghz channels failed.
> 
> > BTW: Could you add a message declaring the device when it is plugged in?
> > Something like "uath0: <TRENDnet TEW-504UB wireless LAN adaptor> on usbus?"
> > and "uath0: ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff"?
> 
> I thought it did this but perhaps not; we can try to add it.

IIRC in the previous USB1, it printed a message like

	uath0: <TRENDnet TEW-504UB wireless LAN adaptor> on usbus?

whenever a device is attached even if the device source doesn't print
it but it's not now in USB2.  I have no ideas it's a intention or a
regression of USB2.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong