Testing ath5k driver

Testing ath5k driver

[Romano Giannetti]

Hi all,

I stumbled yesterday on the compat- package and I could not resist to
test the new drivers on my laptop. (BTW, the link to the download page
on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k is wrong).=20

I have a toshiba U305 with a Atheros chipset, marked as AR5BXB63 or
AR5007EG.

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.=
11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Unknown device 7128
        Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19
        Memory at 88200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Q=
ueue=3D0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=3D1
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
00: 8c 16 1c 00 42 01 10 00 01 00 00 02 10 00 00 00
10: 04 00 20 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 50 00 00 4f 14 28 71
30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00

I have built the yesterday  compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 and after all
the step I have:=20

[  312.999107] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, lo=
w) -> IRQ 19
[  312.999141] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64
[  312.999351] ath5k_pci 0000:06:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[  314.048568] ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip
[  314.048652] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled
[  314.048674] ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -5

So... just to give you a data point. I am available to test things. The
wireless works ok[*] with ndiswrapper and XP drivers for AR5008.

Romano

[*] Well, if I do not try to load ath5k modules. After that, and after
unload it and all of the dependent modules, trying to load ndiswrapper
again put the laptop in brick mode. But that's another story, I know.=20



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Re: Testing ath5k driver

[Nick Kossifidis]

2008/1/11, Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I stumbled yesterday on the compat- package and I could not resist to
> test the new drivers on my laptop. (BTW, the link to the download page
> on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k is wrong).
>
> I have a toshiba U305 with a Atheros chipset, marked as AR5BXB63 or
> AR5007EG.
>
> 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Unknown device 7128
>         Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19
>         Memory at 88200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
>         Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
>         Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
>         Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>         Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
> 00: 8c 16 1c 00 42 01 10 00 01 00 00 02 10 00 00 00
> 10: 04 00 20 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 50 00 00 4f 14 28 71
> 30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00
>
> I have built the yesterday  compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 and after all
> the step I have:
>
> [  312.999107] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> [  312.999141] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64
> [  312.999351] ath5k_pci 0000:06:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> [  314.048568] ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip
> [  314.048652] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled
> [  314.048674] ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -5
>
> So... just to give you a data point. I am available to test things. The
> wireless works ok[*] with ndiswrapper and XP drivers for AR5008.
>
> Romano
>
> [*] Well, if I do not try to load ath5k modules. After that, and after
> unload it and all of the dependent modules, trying to load ndiswrapper
> again put the laptop in brick mode. But that's another story, I know.
>

It's a known bug in nic_wakeup, i've fixed it but patch is pending due
to testing. Problem is that even with that fix RF2425 doesn't tx/rx,
we are currently working with users to fix 2413/2414 support (radio
revision 0x56) so it'll take a while (tests etc) before we make this
work.


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Nick

Re: Testing ath5k driver

[Romano Giannetti]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:56 +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2008/1/11, Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es>:
> >
> >
> > [  312.999107] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level=
, low) -> IRQ 19
> > [  312.999141] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to=
 64
> > [  312.999351] ath5k_pci 0000:06:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> > [  314.048568] ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip
> > [  314.048652] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled
> > [  314.048674] ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -=
5
> >
>=20
> It's a known bug in nic_wakeup, i've fixed it but patch is pending du=
e
> to testing. Problem is that even with that fix RF2425 doesn't tx/rx,
> we are currently working with users to fix 2413/2414 support (radio
> revision 0x56) so it'll take a while (tests etc) before we make this
> work.

Ok, understood. Please feel free to ping me if some change goes in and
need testing.=20

Thanks,
	Romano=20

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Re: Testing ath5k driver

[Nick Kossifidis]

2008/1/11, Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es>:
>
>
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:56 +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > 2008/1/11, Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es>:
> > >
> > >
> > > [  312.999107] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> > > [  312.999141] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64
> > > [  312.999351] ath5k_pci 0000:06:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> > > [  314.048568] ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip
> > > [  314.048652] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled
> > > [  314.048674] ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -5
> > >
> >
> > It's a known bug in nic_wakeup, i've fixed it but patch is pending due
> > to testing. Problem is that even with that fix RF2425 doesn't tx/rx,
> > we are currently working with users to fix 2413/2414 support (radio
> > revision 0x56) so it'll take a while (tests etc) before we make this
> > work.
>
> Ok, understood. Please feel free to ping me if some change goes in and
> need testing.
>
> Thanks,
>         Romano
>

ACK, thanx for the report ;-)

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Nick

Re: Testing ath5k driver

[Richard Scherping]

Nick Kossifidis schrieb:
> It's a known bug in nic_wakeup, i've fixed it but patch is pending due
> to testing. Problem is that even with that fix RF2425 doesn't tx/rx,
> we are currently working with users to fix 2413/2414 support (radio
> revision 0x56) so it'll take a while (tests etc) before we make this
> work.

Nice to hear that you are working on the "no tx/rx" problem. I am working with several Atheros-based Cardbus NICs for WLAN testing and development at university and unfortunately the card we have chosen to buy a bunch of is affected by this problem.
If I can be of any help in fixing the problem, please mail me! I did not digg into the at5k source code up to now, but I did modify madwifi a lot, so might be able to help investigating the problem.

My setup:

syslog
~~~~~~
Jan 11 11:42:52 merom kernel: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
Jan 11 11:42:52 merom kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:16:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Jan 11 11:42:52 merom kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:16:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Jan 11 11:42:52 merom kernel: ath5k_pci 0000:16:00.0: registered as 'phy1'
Jan 11 11:42:52 merom kernel: phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
Jan 11 11:42:52 merom kernel: ath5k phy1: Atheros AR5213A chip found (MAC: 0x79, PHY: 0x45)
Jan 11 11:42:52 merom kernel: ath5k phy1: RF2112A 2GHz radio found (0x56)

lspci -n
~~~~~~~~
16:00.0 0200: 168c:0013 (rev 01)

lspci -vvv
~~~~~~~~~~
16:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
	Subsystem: D-Link System Inc D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 Wireless Cardbus Adapter(rev.C)
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
	Region 0: Memory at c4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

I am trying the compat-wireless-2.6 build every time something in ath5k seems to have changed, but no solution to the rx/tx problem with this card up to now :-(

The interesting thing is that at http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k 168c:0013 is said to work OK, which it does NOT in my case.

Thank you very much for your work!

Richard

PS: Can you recommend a Dual-Band Atheros Cardbus card (abg) that is known to work fine with ath5k?