Luiz Ramos wrote: > Hello, > > Recently I changed the laptop, and there's something wrong with the new > Wifi adapter, which is an Atheros AR9485. Now, when I do modprobe ath9k, > a message like this is registered in dmesg: > > ath9k: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -5 > > The OS installed in that machine is a Slackware 13.37 with the stock > kernel. I've tried, following some google research, using the > compatibility backport kit. I've downloaded some versions, but now I > stick with compat-wireless-3.5.3-2-sn in order to eliminate variables. > > After some turns, I've put some printk() in > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c, and my final conclusion is that the > time is running out in the routine ath_hw_wait() when waiting for the > register 0x7044 have some value, like showed by one message raised by > one of the printk() inserted in the code: > > ath9k_hw_wait(): ret=0(timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7044: 0xffffffff & > 0x0000000f != 0x00000002) Can you attach the output of lspci -vv and lsusb -v ? Sujith -- 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
