Ath works as module, not inkernel

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 1 03:20:25 UTC 2011


On 1 August 2011 11:17, richo <richo at psych0tik.net> wrote:

>> Should be noted .... does this happen with a generic kernel ? The
>> default ATH setup works perfectly and I can attest to it working just
>> fine built in here.
>
> First thing I tried was with GENERIC (iirc, freeBSD doesn't support any
> other
> configuration?) and still no dice.
>
> Adrian, I saw your post and I will have a look at what that function returns
> to see if I can track it down.

ok. I bet you'll find that the hardware just wasn't setup correctly at
the time where ath was being probed.

This could be because of things like ACPI extensions not having turned
on the NIC (software rfkill, for example) or something equally
strange.

If you can get it reproducable, we can work on it together.


Adrian


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