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

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Sam Leffler <sam at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> hostb0 at pci0:0:0:0:      class=0x060000 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79101002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> pcib1 at pci0:0:2:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79131002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
>> pcib2 at pci0:0:4:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79141002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
>> pcib3 at pci0:0:6:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79161002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
>> pcib4 at pci0:0:7:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79171002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
>> atapci0 at pci0:0:18:0:    class=0x01018f card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43801002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> ohci0 at pci0:0:19:0:      class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43871002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> ohci1 at pci0:0:19:1:      class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43881002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> ohci2 at pci0:0:19:2:      class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43891002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> ohci3 at pci0:0:19:3:      class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x438a1002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> ohci4 at pci0:0:19:4:      class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x438b1002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> ehci0 at pci0:0:19:5:      class=0x0c0320 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43861002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> none0 at pci0:0:20:0:      class=0x0c0500 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43851002
>> rev=0x14 hdr=0x00
>> atapci1 at pci0:0:20:1:    class=0x01018a card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x438c1002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> none1 at pci0:0:20:2:      class=0x040300 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43831002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> isab0 at pci0:0:20:3:      class=0x060100 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x438d1002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> pcib5 at pci0:0:20:4:      class=0x060401 card=0x00000000 chip=0x43841002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
>> hostb1 at pci0:0:24:0:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11001022
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> hostb2 at pci0:0:24:1:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11011022
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> hostb3 at pci0:0:24:2:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11021022
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> hostb4 at pci0:0:24:3:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11031022
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x95811002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> none2 at pci0:1:0:1:       class=0x040300 card=0xaa081462 chip=0xaa081002
>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>> ath0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x10261a3b chip=0x001c168c
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>> re0 at pci0:5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01
>> hdr=0x00
>> cbb0 at pci0:6:4:0:        class=0x060700 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x71341217
>> rev=0x21 hdr=0x02
>> none3 at pci0:6:4:2:       class=0x080500 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x71201217
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>> none4 at pci0:6:4:3:       class=0x068000 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x71301217
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>> fwohci0 at pci0:6:4:4:     class=0x0c0010 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x00f71217
>> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>>
>> ath0 is listed as rev=0x01 so I'm a little confused why I got HAL
>> status 13.  Does anyone know if this chipset is supported in
>> 7.0-STABLE?  If not, is it possible to try CURRENT on 7.0 which may
>> fix it?  I've attached my complete dmesg output.
>>
>> Again, any feedback would be much appreciated!
>>
>>
>
> Try the hal in http://www.freebsd.org/~sam.

Again Sam, thanks for this, it worked for me...

-aps