Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

[Alexander Sack]

Hello:

I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based
notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic embedded
controller.  During boot up I notice that ATH complains with:

ath_rate: version 1.2 <SampleRate bit-rate selection algorithm>
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xfd7f0000-0xfd7fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
ath0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfd7f0000
ath0: [MPSAFE]
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6

HAL status 13 from the header file seems to indicate that the
7.0-STABLE driver doesn't support my hardware revision.  Here is my
pciconf -l output:

hostb0 at pci0:0:0:0:	class=0x060000 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79101002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
pcib1 at pci0:0:2:0:	class=0x060400 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79131002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
pcib2 at pci0:0:4:0:	class=0x060400 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79141002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
pcib3 at pci0:0:6:0:	class=0x060400 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79161002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
pcib4 at pci0:0:7:0:	class=0x060400 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x79171002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
atapci0 at pci0:0:18:0:	class=0x01018f card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43801002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
ohci0 at pci0:0:19:0:	class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43871002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
ohci1 at pci0:0:19:1:	class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43881002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
ohci2 at pci0:0:19:2:	class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43891002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
ohci3 at pci0:0:19:3:	class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x438a1002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
ohci4 at pci0:0:19:4:	class=0x0c0310 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x438b1002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
ehci0 at pci0:0:19:5:	class=0x0c0320 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43861002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
none0 at pci0:0:20:0:	class=0x0c0500 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43851002
rev=0x14 hdr=0x00
atapci1 at pci0:0:20:1:	class=0x01018a card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x438c1002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
none1 at pci0:0:20:2:	class=0x040300 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x43831002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
isab0 at pci0:0:20:3:	class=0x060100 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x438d1002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
pcib5 at pci0:0:20:4:	class=0x060401 card=0x00000000 chip=0x43841002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
hostb1 at pci0:0:24:0:	class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11001022
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
hostb2 at pci0:0:24:1:	class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11011022
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
hostb3 at pci0:0:24:2:	class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11021022
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
hostb4 at pci0:0:24:3:	class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11031022
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:	class=0x030000 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x95811002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
none2 at pci0:1:0:1:	class=0x040300 card=0xaa081462 chip=0xaa081002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
ath0 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x10261a3b chip=0x001c168c
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
re0 at pci0:5:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
cbb0 at pci0:6:4:0:	class=0x060700 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x71341217
rev=0x21 hdr=0x02
none3 at pci0:6:4:2:	class=0x080500 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x71201217
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
none4 at pci0:6:4:3:	class=0x068000 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x71301217
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
fwohci0 at pci0:6:4:4:	class=0x0c0010 card=0x42cd1462 chip=0x00f71217
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00

ath0 is listed as rev=0x01 so I'm a little confused why I got HAL
status 13.  Does anyone know if this chipset is supported in
7.0-STABLE?  If not, is it possible to try CURRENT on 7.0 which may
fix it?  I've attached my complete dmesg output.

Again, any feedback would be much appreciated!

-aps
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