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

[Sam Leffler]

This is likely a cardbus issue.  The hal status code is:

        HAL_EIO         = 3,    /* Hardware didn't respond as expected */
 
(look in sys/contrib/dev/ath/ah.h) and it typically means the sanity 
check/self test done at startup failed.

For fun you might check if the cardbus chip on the two laptops are 
different.  Warner just recently fixed some cardbus issues in HEAD (w/ 
Ricoh bridge chips I believe) but the symptoms were different.

    Sam

Ian wrote:
> 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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