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

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <48A303CE.2020006 at freebsd.org>
            Sam Leffler <sam at freebsd.org> writes:
: 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.

Yes.  The problem would be that the card didn't show up at all, even
when you enabled CardBus debugging...  This was a power issue where we
were accessing the card before it was powered up.

That's not to say that there isn't another CardBus problem...

Warner

:     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 श�क�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>
: >>
: >> HTH
: >> Ashish Shukla
: >> --
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: >>
: >>     
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