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

[eculp]

Quoting Alexander Sack <pisymbol at gmail.com>:

> 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

I have the same Atheros 5424/2424 on my Acer aspire laptop and it  
works great by installing the patch from Sam,
       http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz
Building a new kernel and then adding your configuration in rc.conf.

good luck,

ed
>>> 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
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