Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:45624 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751112Ab1EDQYQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 12:24:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4DC17DAE.9020808@candelatech.com> (sfid-20110504_182420_728896_096C7375) Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 09:24:14 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Looking for 3x3 Atheros NICs using ath9k driver. References: <4DBF1967.9010604@candelatech.com> <4DC042A5.9050806@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/04/2011 09:16 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 4 May 2011 02:00, Ben Greear wrote: > >> Here's the lspci for the SR71-A that doesn't work with ath9k: >> >> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless >> Network Adapter (rev 01) >> Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device ee1c > > ... ee1c? Err, that isn't right. Not by a very, very long shot. > > What board are you putting this into? > >> From FreeBSD on a RSPRO (ar71xx mips): > > ath0@pci0:0:17:0: class=0x028000 card=0x40820777 chip=0x0027168c > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' > class = network > > That definitely, positively is the same AC1A revision that you have. > It even does 11n(ag) too. Honest. I've seen it. :-) > > This and the previous AR93xx "0xabcd" device id post is starting to > sound a lot like something's not waking up the PCI bus and/or chip > "right" in order to get the PCI vendor id init'ed from the EEPROM.. Well, I put in one NIC, it works fine, I put in the other, and it doesn't. Same system, reproducible on other systems from same manufacturer (Lanner, LEC 2010E). Haven't tried it on a totally different motherboard. I'll send you this broken NIC if you want...I'm too tight on time to hack on it now... Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com