Re: Getting ath5k driver working with Thinkpad T61 [168c:1014]

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw@panix.com>]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>>> Interesting...  can you confirm that madwifi also will not start from a cold
>>> boot?
>>
>> Yes, madwifi will not start from a cold boot.
>
> Ugh, well that is not good.  Does ndiswrapper work?

I haven't tried it, but wireless does work under Windows (Vista,
vendor installation).

> Unless anyone
> else has ideas, I would suggest capturing a trace using mmiotrace and
> ndiswrapper to see what is going on.  Someone on ath5k-devel list
> might have a better idea.

I don't know how to do that, can you point me at instructions?

>> It's not hanging. The very first call to ath5k_hw_set_power(ah,
>> AR5K_PM_AWAKE, true, 0); from ath5k_hw_nic_wakeup fails with -EIO, and
>> the driver gives up.
>
> By 'hanging' I mean the register writes cease to do anything useful
> and the card basically stops responding until you power off.  Madwifi
> will even give "Card didn't behave as expected" in this case

Oh, okay.  That is indeed the error message I'm getting from madwifi.

zw