Ath works as module, not inkernel

[Adrian Chadd]

On 1 August 2011 11:01, richo <richo at psych0tik.net> wrote:

> This is true. I surmised that either the issue was widespread and so it'd
> get
> reported, or it was just me and probably self-inflicted ;)

I don't have that issue on my netbooks. I thus can't fix it. :)


>> This isn't the first time I've heard about strange issues like this;
>> it almost always boils down to something strange in PCI/ACPI handling.
>
> I did some more reading about FreeBSD's wireless support just now, it looks
> like maybe a missing device wlan
> could be the issue, however I'll build a kernel with the broken config
> tonight and posts boot info.
>
> IIRC it's hal attach returned 6, and another error 3. I went looking for
> them
> in sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah.h but couldn't work out what I was looking for
> (Very new to kernel dev, in case you'd not guessed :] )

the attach is the device attach - ar5210Attach, ar5212Attach ..
ar9280Attach, etc. See what that function returns. :)


Adrian