7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

Luis Neves luis.neves at co.sapo.pt
Fri Oct 26 08:34:17 PDT 2007


Yuri Lukin wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:24:40 +0100, Luis Neves wrote

> FWIW, I have a T61 (not the "p" version) with 7.0-PRERELEASE from Oct 15th and
> have an integrated IBM miniPCI card that uses the ath driver without any problems:
> 
> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdf2f0000-0xdf2fffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2
> 
> You should have no issues using the CB21AG adapter under FreeBSD. I have
> several of these and have used them as far back as 6.0-RELEASE on multiple
> laptops without any issues. In fact, I just dug one up and inserted it into my
> T61 and it attached to ath1:
> 
> ath1: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> ath1: [ITHREAD]
> ath1: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath1: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 radio 3.6

Huumm... this is similar output to what i had last week, since then I've updated 
RAM to 4GB (a delicate process, I might have screwed up something) and updated 
FreeBSD a couple of times to the latest RELENG_7.



>> I'm running:
>> uname -a
>>
>> FreeBSD t61p 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #0: Fri Oct 26 13:10:37 
>> WEST 2007 root at t61p:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>> GENERIC kernel with ULE and without debugging.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to diagnose these issues?
>>
> 
> What does dmesg show for "ath" when you boot? Or can you post "pciconf -l -v"?

cardbus:
cbb0 at pci0:21:0:0:       class=0x060700 card=0x20c617aa chip=0x04761180 rev=0xba 
hdr=0x02
     vendor     = 'Ricoh Company, Ltd.'
     device     = 'unknown Ricoh R/RL/5C476(II)'
     class      = bridge
     subclass   = PCI-CardBus

"ral" card:
ral0 at pci0:22:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x3c001948 chip=0x02011814 rev=0x01 
hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Ralink Technology, Corp'
     device     = '0x03011814 Zonet ZEW1601 (Ralink Chipset) 802.11b/g WLAN Card'
     class      = network

"ath" card
ath0 at pci0:22:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0xcb2114b9 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 
hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
     device     = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
     class      = network
     subclass   = ethernet


Thanks for your help!

--
Luis Neves


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