[Bug 194336] AR9300 pci wireless card not working

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Greg Becker <greg at codeconcepts.com> changed:

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                 CC|                            |greg at codeconcepts.com

--- Comment #12 from Greg Becker <greg at codeconcepts.com> ---
I am seeing this problem (i.e., "unable to collect...") with a TP-LINK
TL-WDN4800 I picked up from from Frys the other day in Austin, TX.

After getting nowhere searching the web, I crafted the following patch and low
and behold the card now appears to work just fine:


Index: sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c
===================================================================
--- sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c        (revision 292515)
+++ sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c        (working copy)
@@ -5631,11 +5631,11 @@
        struct ath_hal *ah = sc->sc_ah;

        DPRINTF(sc, ATH_DEBUG_REGDOMAIN, "%s: use rd %u cc %d\n",
-           __func__, SKU_DEBUG, CTRY_DEFAULT);
+           __func__, SKU_DEBUG, CTRY_UNITED_STATES);

        /* XXX check return */
        (void) ath_hal_getchannels(ah, chans, maxchans, nchans,
-           HAL_MODE_ALL, CTRY_DEFAULT, SKU_DEBUG, AH_TRUE);
+           HAL_MODE_ALL, CTRY_UNITED_STATES, SKU_DEBUG, AH_TRUE);

 }

@@ -5651,7 +5651,7 @@
         * Collect channel set based on EEPROM contents.
         */
        status = ath_hal_init_channels(ah, ic->ic_channels, IEEE80211_CHAN_MAX,
-           &ic->ic_nchans, HAL_MODE_ALL, CTRY_DEFAULT, SKU_NONE, AH_TRUE);
+           &ic->ic_nchans, HAL_MODE_ALL, CTRY_UNITED_STATES, SKU_NONE,
AH_TRUE);
        if (status != HAL_OK) {
                if_printf(ifp, "%s: unable to collect channel list from hal, "
                    "status %d\n", __func__, status);




Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: <Atheros AR938x> mem 0xfb500000-0xfb51ffff
irq 32 at device 0.0 on pci3
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ar9300_set_stub_functions: setting stub
functions
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ar9300_set_stub_functions: setting stub
functions
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ar9300_attach: calling ar9300_hw_attach
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ar9300_hw_attach: calling ar9300_eeprom_attach
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ar9300_flash_map: unimplemented for now
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: Restoring Cal data from DRAM
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: Restoring Cal data from EEPROM
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ar9300_hw_attach: ar9300_eeprom_attach returned
0
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: RX status length: 48
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: RX buffer size: 4096
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: TX descriptor length: 128
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: TX status length: 36
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: TX buffers per descriptor: 4
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ar9300_freebsd_setup_x_tx_desc: called, 0x0/0,
0x0/0, 0x0/0
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: ath_edma_setup_rxfifo: type=0, FIFO depth
= 16 entries
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: ath_edma_setup_rxfifo: type=1, FIFO depth
= 128 entries
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: [HT] enabling short-GI in 20MHz mode
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: [HT] 3 RX streams; 3 TX streams
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: AR9380 mac 448.3 RF5110 phy 0.0
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper kernel: ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0000
Dec 21 07:41:09 harper devd: Executing '/etc/pccard_ether ath0 start'
Dec 21 07:41:10 harper kernel: wlan0: Ethernet address: f4:f2:6d:b5:42:25
Dec 21 07:41:10 harper devd: Executing '/etc/pccard_ether ath0 start'
Dec 21 07:41:10 harper devd: Executing '/etc/pccard_ether wlan0 start'

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