Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:44864 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753118Ab1EFWx7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 18:53:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4DC47C04.1080604@candelatech.com> (sfid-20110507_005402_980476_D3FDD64B) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 15:53:56 -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> <4DC17DAE.9020808@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: <4DC17DAE.9020808@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/04/2011 09:24 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > 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... So, you were right. I put this NIC in another system (VIA C3) and it comes up as AR9160 and loads ath9k driver just fine. 00:0c.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9160 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: Device 0777:4082 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 18 Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: ath9k Kernel modules: ath9k Thanks, Ben > > Ben > > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com