On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:43:02PM +0000, Brent Taylor wrote: > I’m a developer working with the Atheros AR6003 Wireless LAN chip. I recently > updated the Linux kernel on my custom board to 3.0.0 and pulled the latest > snapshot of the ath6kl driver from > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath6kl-cleanup.git;a=summary (as > of 2011-07-25). I’m also using the latest firmware images from > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/firmware/ath6k.tar.gz as > recommended by > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath6kl?highlight=%28ar6003%29. > These are fine. > After running 'insmod ath6kl.ko', the command line hangs. I’ve narrowed down > the execution path to the function ath6kl_bmi_get_rx_lkahd (called from > ath6kl_bmi_exeute after loading the OPT firmware). The parameter value of > "need_timeout" is set to false. Without this timeout the function never > returns. The call to ath6kl_hif_read_write_sync always returns 0, and the value > of rx_word is always 0. > > My question is: What would cause the read from address > RX_LOOKAHEAD_VALID_ADDRESS to always return a value of 0? Odd, we have never seen this sort of issues. Can you please give the kernel debug output with BMI debug enabled (debug_mask=0x10). Vasanth -- 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
