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

[Ian]

That sounds like a fairly accurate assessment of the issue.

The only thing that makes me hesitate is that based on a report I have read
(http://mjoc.sig.lt/papers/freebsd/vaio/vaio_freebsd.html); There where no
problems
with the PCMCIA when he installed freeBSD 5.3.

So I guess the questions after this point go in this order:
1. Could something have changed from 5.3 to 7.0 that would have
stopped it from working?
2. The cardbus on the working system is a Micro, Inc. The vaio is a Ricoh
Co chipset (both according to lspci). So this may indicate that the issue
may
lie in the cardbus. Where can I find the work being done on the support?
3. If this does not correct the issue, could it be from a physical breakage?


Thank you for your attention.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Sam Leffler <sam at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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/<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Esam/>
>>
>> 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 शॠकà¥
>> ल <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>
>>> <http://people.freebsd.org/%7Esam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz>
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Ashish Shukla
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