From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:24:14 -0500 Subject: [ath9k-devel] AR5008 - failed to initialize device In-Reply-To: <2F2682A9088F4031B894B65CCBA3B8C4@W1> References: <2F2682A9088F4031B894B65CCBA3B8C4@W1> Message-ID: <1268198654.17677.2.camel@mj> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:29 +0300, Sergei Antonov wrote: > Hi! > I cannot make kernel 2.6.33 work with the "D-Link DWA-547" PCI card. Details > follow. > > dmesg: > ath9k 0000:00:11.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 > ath: address test failed addr: 0x00008000 - wr:0x00100010 != rd:0x00000010 > ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -19 > ath9k 0000:00:11.0: failed to initialize device > ath9k 0000:00:11.0: PCI INT A disabled That's a chip test failure. As you can see in the list archives, Atheros based D-Link devices are notoriously unreliable. You may want to increase PCI latency in BIOS settings (if you are lucky to have that option) or try the card on another system. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin