We have initial support for AR5210s (still needs work), AR5211 and AR5212. To add support for other hardware we'll need register dumps of the HAL. Fortunately we have a way to do this. It's still hard to figure out what we're supposed to do but at least we can get the some idea of what to do this way. Below are instructions, you can find later instructions on the URL: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/madwifi-regdumps/README MadWifi HAL Register dumping ---------------------------- You can use these instructions to get register dumps of HAL register reads and writes. For this we build the alq and mmio trap modules and make some use of them. This is based on patches and information from: http://madwifi.org/ticket/1380 http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MmioTrace -- Steps to take --- 0. Get MadWifi svn trunk, patches, pach up and build: svn export http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk trunk wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/madwifi-regdumps/alq.diff wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/madwifi-regdumps/mmio.diff wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/madwifi-regdumps/var.diff cd trunk/ patch -p1 < ../alq.patch patch -p1 < ../mmio.patch patch -p1 < ../var.diff make ALQ=1 MMIOTRACE=1 1. Alter the ath_pci.ko module with this command and then install modules: mv ath/ath_pci.ko ath/ath_pci.ko.old objcopy --redefine-sym __ioremap=__ioremap_trace --redefine-sym \ iounmap=iounmap_trace --redefine-sym \ ioremap_nocache=ioremap_nocache_trace \ ath/ath_pci.ko.old ath/ath_pci.ko sudo make install ALQ=1 MMIOTRACE=1 2. Load mmio, alq, ath_hal sudo modprobe mmio sudo modprobe alq sudo modprobe ath_hal 3. Proc stuff: sudo su - echo 2 > /proc/sys/dev/ath/hal/debug echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/ath/hal/alq 4. Load ath_pci modprobe ath_pci 5. Check reg dump file exists ls -l /tmp/ath_hal.log As you do things with the driver it should increase in size: root@pogo:~# wc -l /tmp/ath_hal.log 14236 /tmp/ath_hal.log root@pogo:~# iwconfig wlan3 wlan3 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"" Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 root@pogo:~# wc -l /tmp/ath_hal.log 14425 /tmp/ath_hal.log 6. Parse the regdump stuff, it looks nasty: perl -pe 's,\x00,,g' < /tmp/ath_hal.log > /tmp/ath_hal.log.txt In the end you should see lines like this: R:0x04004 = 0x00010000 - unknown W:0x04004 = 0x00000000 - unknown R:0x04010 = 0x00010014 - unknown R:0x04004 = 0x00000000 - unknown W:0x04004 = 0x00000000 - unknown ... -- Sending dumps -- Please feel free to post dumps of hardware to ath5k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In doing so you should also provide ath_info dump: cd trunk/tools make lspci -v # look for the line like: # Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] # for your card, put 0x in front of it as and fun ath_info with it: sudo ./ath_info 0xb8000000 You should get something like: --- -==Device Information==- MAC Version: 5212 (0x50) MAC Revision: 5213A(0x59) PHY Revision: 5112a(0x36) -==EEPROM Information==- EEPROM Version: 5.2 EEPROM Size: 16K Regulatory Domain: 0x10 -==== Capabilities ====- | 802.11a Support: yes | | 802.11b Support: yes | | 802.11g Support: yes | | RFKill Support: no | | 32KHz Crystal: yes | ======================== GPIO registers: CR 00000000 DO 00000000 DI 00000000 --- Other tips: If you are sending dumps please add stuff to the regdump which indicates what you did to trigger a section of reg reads/writes. The dumps can be pretty big so please compress the file with bzip2. If you can host the file somewhere and just send us the URL that may help. Luis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
