2008/10/14 Elias Oltmanns <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
>
> after a cold boot into 2.6.27, ath5k doesn't work on my machine. The
> sequence
>
> # ifconfig ath0 up
> # iwlist ath0 ap
>
> results in a message informing me that no list of APs is available for
> that device. I have identified the following commit as the guilty one:
>
> commit 2203d6be7ed17af81a1dc35a0af9806086743b02
> Author: Nick Kossifidis <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun Jul 20 06:36:52 2008 +0300
>
> ath5k: Misc hw_reset updates
>
> * Update hw_reset to calculate some of the values we were using as
> static
> * Increase activation to rx delay
>
> Changes-licensed-under: ISC
> Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
>
> The minimal patch to fix the issue for me is attached. However, I am
> wondering whether the preceding writes to register 0xa228 should be
> dropped or at least adjusted somehow. Perhaps those of you who know the
> recently released HAL from Atheros can throw some light on the matter.
>
> Regards,
>
> Elias
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/hw.c
> index dc51b84..b1cec2a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/hw.c
> @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ int ath5k_hw_reset(struct ath5k_hw *ah, enum ieee80211_if_types op_mode,
> data = 0;
>
> /* Just write 0x9b5 ? */
> - /* ath5k_hw_reg_write(ah, 0x000009b5, 0xa228); */
> + ath5k_hw_reg_write(ah, 0x000009b5, 0xa228);
> ath5k_hw_reg_write(ah, 0x0000000f, AR5K_SEQ_MASK);
> ath5k_hw_reg_write(ah, 0x00000000, 0xa254);
> ath5k_hw_reg_write(ah, 0x0000000e, AR5K_PHY_SCAL);
>
I think i've fixed that (it's a buggy mask some lines above) on an
earlier patch (the one that introduced AR2425 support) but i'll look
into it again ;-)
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Nick