atheros (ath) wifi driver problem

[Mo Po]

Doug,

Thanks - I tried but did not help. The mobo is AN35N Ultra.
The exact error is:

kldload if_ath
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe7000000-0xe700ffff irq 7 at device 8.0 on pci1
ath0: could not map interrupt
device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6

I upgraded to something called RELENG_5 but it did not help (but now the
onboard NVIDIA ether driver does not build ;-)

I am running no GUI but command line only (yes I go back that long
ago:-)


On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:36 -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:18:38PM -0800, Mo Po wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I installed FreeBSD 5.3 today (coming from linux/debian).
> > I need to use the atheros wifi driver (man page ATH(4)), which is
> > included in 5.3. (I have an atheros based PCI card in an athlon xp based
> > system).
> > 
> > I get the following error when loading the module ('kldload if_ath'
> > command):
> > ...
> > ath0: could not map interrupt
> > device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
> > 
> > After that ifconfig fails tp 'up' the ath0 i/f ('does not exists').
> > 
> You may have already checked this, but be sure that "Plug and Play OS"
> is "NO" in your BIOS.  I've seen weird things happen w/PCI cards
> when this BIOS setting is on.  HTH
> 
-- 
Mo Po <mopo at softhome.net>