2008/1/11, Romano Giannetti <romanol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi all, > > I stumbled yesterday on the compat- package and I could not resist to > test the new drivers on my laptop. (BTW, the link to the download page > on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k is wrong). > > I have a toshiba U305 with a Atheros chipset, marked as AR5BXB63 or > AR5007EG. > > 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Unknown device 7128 > Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19 > Memory at 88200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 > Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- > Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0 > Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1 > Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting > Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel > 00: 8c 16 1c 00 42 01 10 00 01 00 00 02 10 00 00 00 > 10: 04 00 20 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 50 00 00 4f 14 28 71 > 30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00 > > I have built the yesterday compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 and after all > the step I have: > > [ 312.999107] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 > [ 312.999141] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64 > [ 312.999351] ath5k_pci 0000:06:00.0: registered as 'phy0' > [ 314.048568] ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip > [ 314.048652] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled > [ 314.048674] ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -5 > > So... just to give you a data point. I am available to test things. The > wireless works ok[*] with ndiswrapper and XP drivers for AR5008. > > Romano > > [*] Well, if I do not try to load ath5k modules. After that, and after > unload it and all of the dependent modules, trying to load ndiswrapper > again put the laptop in brick mode. But that's another story, I know. > It's a known bug in nic_wakeup, i've fixed it but patch is pending due to testing. Problem is that even with that fix RF2425 doesn't tx/rx, we are currently working with users to fix 2413/2414 support (radio revision 0x56) so it'll take a while (tests etc) before we make this work. -- GPG ID: 0xD21DB2DB As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-) Nick - 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
