On Thu July 22 2010 13:55:36 Jonathan Guerin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure if I'm just misunderstanding something, or if they > documentation is older than what's happening in practice. I'm trying > to enable ath5k debug mode so that I can have a poke around in debufs. > > Unfortunately, enabling debug in the compat-wireless distro doesn't > seem to output the same information as I've been reading about > elsewhere on the 'net. My understanding is that ath5k should load an > ath5k directory tree into debugfs: > http://www.mail-archive.com/ath5k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00266.html > > This doesn't seem to be happening at the moment - what I CAN see in > the /debug tree is: > bdi gpio ieee80211 kprobes mce pktcdvd sched_features tracing usb > x86 > > Some of the stuff I expect to see in ath5k is in ieee8022, but I > cannot write to this tree. Trying to replicate the cat mentioned in > the link above to set the debug level in this tree fails with a > 'permission denied' error. > > Trying to load the module with the debug param fails with the following > error: ath5k: Unknown parameter `debug' > > I'm wondering if someone would be able to point me in the right > direction to get this working. seems like ath5k is not compiled with debugging enabled (did you set CONFIG_ATH5K_DEBUG=y?), or you are using the wrong (old) module? bruno -- 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
