Re: ath problems

Beech Rintoul wrote:
> I'm trying to get ath working with a D-Link AG530 wireless card on a 6-STABLE 
> machine. It returns the following:
> 
> Dec 28 12:24:12 pinnacle kernel: ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, 
> RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
> Dec 28 12:24:12 pinnacle kernel: ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 
> 0xcffe0000-0xcffeffff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0
> Dec 28 12:24:12 pinnacle kernel: ath0: unable to collect channel list from 
> hal; regdomain likely 18 country code 0
> Dec 28 12:24:12 pinnacle kernel: device_attach: ath0 attach returned 22
> 
> This card / driver works perfectly on my -CURRENT box. Is this supported in 
> -CURRENT only? I don't want to upgrade the box, it's in production and I 
> can't risk -CURRENT. BTW, this card is not in the supported devices list, but 
> does work. Is it feasible to move the sources from -CURRENT to this box? If 
> so which ones?

6-STABLE and CURRENT have the same hal so I don't see how it works 
differently.  Verify the hal versions.

Regardless this problem is caused by a batch of cards D-Link created 
with bogus regulatory domain codes programmed into the EEPROM (they 
programmed 18 when they probably wanted 16 = FCC).  If you search a bit 
you can find postings that describe how to "fix this".

	Sam