From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitri Seletski Subject: wifi pci card issue in windows host. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:09:02 +0000 Message-ID: <4B2A579E.3090704@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:54702 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757395AbZLQQJO (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:09:14 -0500 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so562533ewy.21 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:09:12 -0800 (PST) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello folks. My goal is to make my pci based network card work under windows guest.(obviously using windows drivers) this is device i am interested in: 01:07.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5416 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3a6b Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B+ DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/new_id #echo 0000:01:07.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:07.0/driver/unbind #echo 0000:01:07.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/bind last command gives: "echo: write error: No such device" I have "pci_stub" module loaded. and part of dmesg: "[ 8471.257299] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:1e:58:b4:f6:83 by local choice (reason=3) [ 8471.537053] ath9k 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A disabled" Which i guess is ok. than i load my guest with smth like: qemu xp32.img -pcidevice host=01:07.0 -m 2048 I can see device in linux, i can even install driver for it, and there are no other problems with that. But device is not usable. Basically wireless device sees no networks, even though my network has ESSID opened. I was wondering if that previous "echo 0000:01:07.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/bind" failure can affect me? Windows driver is freshly downloaded off dlink site. Access Point is */definitely/* working, since i am connecting to it using native linux drivers. Thanks in advance. Dmitri