ath driver not attaching to TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 nic

a gustavus gustavus700 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 03:01:12 UTC 2016


Hi,
I have the TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 nic with ar9380 chipset.  The ath driver is
not attaching to the nic.  Below is some information on the system.  Any
ideas on the problem.  I have no experience with drivers and haven't found
much online.  Thanks for reading this.

uname -a:

FreeBSD pfSense.localdomain 10.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p3 #1
3ef16fb(RELENG_2_3_1): Tue May 17 19:34:13 CDT 2016
root at ce23-amd64-builder:/builder/pfsense-231/tmp/obj/bu
ilder/pfsense-231/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense  amd64

dmesg:

ath0: <Atheros AR938x> mem 0xdfce0000-0xdfcfffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on
pci2
ar9300_set_stub_functions: setting stub functions
ar9300_set_stub_functions: setting stub functions
ar9300_attach: calling ar9300_hw_attach
ar9300_hw_attach: calling ar9300_eeprom_attach
ar9300_flash_map: unimplemented for now
Restoring Cal data from DRAM
Restoring Cal data from EEPROM
ar9300_hw_attach: ar9300_eeprom_attach returned 0
ath0: RX status length: 48
ath0: RX buffer size: 4096
ath0: TX descriptor length: 128
ath0: TX status length: 36
ath0: TX buffers per descriptor: 4
ar9300_freebsd_setup_x_tx_desc: called, 0x0/0, 0x0/0, 0x0/0
ath0: ath_getchannels: unable to collect channel list from hal, status 12
device_attach: ath0 attach returned 22

pciconf -l -bcev:

none1 at pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x3112168c chip=0x0030168c
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
    device     = 'AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter'
    class      = network
    bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xdfce0000, size 131072,
enabled
    cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D3  current D0
    cap 05[50] = MSI supports 4 messages, 64 bit, vector masks
    cap 10[70] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(128) RO link x1(x1)
                 speed 2.5(2.5) ASPM disabled(L0s/L1)
    ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 0 corrected
    ecap 0002[140] = VC 1 max VC0
    ecap 0003[300] = Serial 1 0000000000000000


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