ath: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3; attach returned 6

[Ian]

I am running the latest ath_hal from http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/

I likely should have mentioned that in the first place

The wireless card is picked up fine when I move the harddrive to another
laptop. Which
would likely rule out the possibility that the issue is within the chipset
(unless I am
severely misguided, which I won't rule out).

Also I am running a generic kernel of FreeBSD-7.0 STABLE (though the issue
was still there when
I had RELEASE running)


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल <wahjava.ml@
gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian  writes:
> > Goal:
> > to have Wireless Atheros based NIC run on my Sony Vaio
>
> > Background:
>
> > The computer in question is a Sony Vaio PCG R505-JL w/ slimdock. The
> CD-ROM
> > is broken.
> > I used a second computer and installed it on the second computer, then
> > transfered the
> > hard drive to the vaio.
>
> > This problem is not present on the computer I installed it on. The card
> > works Out-of box.
>
> > dmesg output:
>
> [snip]
>
> > ath0: <Atheros 2413> mem 0xf4110000-0xf411ffff irq 9 at device 0.0 on
> > cardbus0
> > ath0: [ITHREAD]
> > ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3
> > device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
>
> Above output indicates, wireless chip not accepting the HAL
> firmware. You can try the latest HAL available from following URL:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Esam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz>
>
> HTH
> Ashish Shukla
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