2007/10/27, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi guys, > > first of all, thanks for developing a free driver for Atheros devices :) > > I have a Netgear WG511T PCMCIA card, which is shown in lspci as: > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 > 802.11abg NIC [168c:0013] (rev 01). > According to [1], this card should work (however work is defined). > So I decided to test ath5k, got wireles-2.6 git, fetched "everything" > and compiled the kernel. After a reboot the ath5k module gets loaded > and says: > phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple' > ath5k_pci 0000:03:00.0: AR5212 chip found: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 > Everything looks okay, and I get two new devices, wlan0 and wmaster0. > However, I can't bring it up. ifconfig wlan0 up and ip link set wlan0 > up comlain: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument" > And in dmesg I can see: > unable to reset hardware: -22 > > Now the question: is that behavior intended? Or should I get better > results (i.e. fully working client mode). > If this should not happen, I would be glad to be able to provide any > additional information to solve the issue. > > Regards > Evgeni >
That seems realy weird, i have the same mac/phy revision as you (5.6/4.1) and it works ok. Can you try to reload ath5k module and see if it wakes up ? -- GPG ID: 0xD21DB2DB As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-) Nick _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
