Re: Looking for 3x3 Atheros NICs using ath9k driver.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 05/04/2011 09:24 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 09:16 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> On 4 May 2011 02:00, Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the lspci for the SR71-A that doesn't work with ath9k:
>>>
>>> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless
>>> Network Adapter (rev 01)
>>> Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device ee1c
>>
>> ... ee1c? Err, that isn't right. Not by a very, very long shot.
>>
>> What board are you putting this into?
>>
>>> From FreeBSD on a RSPRO (ar71xx mips):
>>
>> ath0@pci0:0:17:0: class=0x028000 card=0x40820777 chip=0x0027168c
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>> vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>> class = network
>>
>> That definitely, positively is the same AC1A revision that you have.
>> It even does 11n(ag) too. Honest. I've seen it. :-)
>>
>> This and the previous AR93xx "0xabcd" device id post is starting to
>> sound a lot like something's not waking up the PCI bus and/or chip
>> "right" in order to get the PCI vendor id init'ed from the EEPROM..
>
> Well, I put in one NIC, it works fine, I put in the other, and it doesn't.
>
> Same system, reproducible on other systems from same manufacturer
> (Lanner, LEC 2010E).
>
> Haven't tried it on a totally different motherboard. I'll send you this
> broken NIC if you want...I'm too tight on time to hack on it now...

So, you were right.  I put this NIC in another system (VIA C3) and it comes up
as AR9160 and loads ath9k driver just fine.

00:0c.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9160 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Adapter (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Device 0777:4082
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 18
	Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
	Kernel driver in use: ath9k
	Kernel modules: ath9k

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Ben
>
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