Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

[Manolis Kiagias]

Alexander Sack wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based
> notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic embedded
> controller.  During boot up I notice that ATH complains with:
>
> ath_rate: version 1.2 <SampleRate bit-rate selection algorithm>
> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xfd7f0000-0xfd7fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
> ath0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfd7f0000
> ath0: [MPSAFE]
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
>
> HAL status 13 from the header file seems to indicate that the
> 7.0-STABLE driver doesn't support my hardware revision.  Here is my
> pciconf -l output:
>   

Maybe you could try compiling a kernel with a newer hal. This is the 
kind of hack we use on the eeepc. Have a look at this:

http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD