Sherif F. Fahmy ??: > Hi, > > I am having trouble getting my atheros AR928X wifi card recognized on my > laptop. I have downloaded the arn driver and installed it, but it fails to > attach. The drivers utility tells me that my AR928X has a driver installed > but that it is mis-configured. > Hi Sherif,
AR928X may represent a series of Atheros chipsets (AR9280/9281/9285), please run " scanpci -v " and return me the output so that i can get detailed information of your wireless device. Br, Lin > I checked the /var/adm/messages file and it states that there is a problem > with sharing IRQ 17 (which both my atheros card and my USB controller share). > But the message is a warning rather than an error, and I do not know whether > this is responsible for the failure of the installation. Here is the result > of lspci -vv on these two devices in case this may help resolve the problem. > > 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI > Controller #2 (rev 03) > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 013c > Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0 > Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17 > Region 4: I/O ports at 18a0 [size=32] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd > Kernel modules: uhci-hcd > > > 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless > Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) > Subsystem: Device 1a32:0303 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- > <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 > Region 0: Memory at f4600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: ath9k > Kernel modules: ath9k >
