Atheros 9462 detected but nonfunctional

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 13:38:43 UTC 2016


i wonder if its an rfkill switch setting. Is there an rfkill switch or button?


-a


On 8 March 2016 at 05:29, Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to diagnose an issue with an Atheros 9462 card.  The card is being detected, and seemingly works (reports no errors with wpa_supplicant and friends), however, the radios seem completely nonfunctional, as the card doesn't actually transmit or receive anything (I checked by turning on packet logging and running scans/wpa_supplicant).
>
> There are errors reported in pciconf (it claims they are correctable errors): receiver error, bad tlp, bad dllp.  The Bluetooth subsystem also suffered timeouts (very likely related).
>
> I have confirmed this is not a hardware problem by booting into Linux with a live memstick and running a scan.
>
> I'm looking for advise on likely root causes and how to go about diagnosing the problem (I've never diagnosed a problem on a *supported* card in FreeBSD before, so I'm relatively unfamiliar with the process).
>
> Best,
> Eric
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