Atheros wireless problems.

[Lars Engels]

Quoting Frank Mayhar <frank at exit.com>:

> On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 15:48 +0200, Lars Engels wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 05:06:46PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 08:53 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
>> > > Frank Mayhar wrote:
>> > > > So I obtained a D-Link DWL-AG660 cardbus card, which has a 5213 (I
>> > > > believe) Atheros chipset in it; it's an a/b/g card.  This is to use
>> > > > while the chipset embedded in my laptop isn't supported.  It   
>> came today,
>> > > > I installed it tonight and, well, problems.
>> > > The status codes look bogus.  In 0.10.5.10 there is a code path through
>> > > reset where status is not set if the chip is not brought out of low
>> > > power mode.  Why this might happen is beyond me (could be a cardbus
>> > > problem) but if you initialize status to a known value before the hal
>> > > calls that are failing this might confirm that as the problem.  I've
>> > > fixed the hal fwiw.
>> >
>> > That's definitely not the problem, it seems.  I modified the driver to
>> > zero 'status' in each of the routines that emit the message.  When I ran
>> > it today, it emitted the 'device timeout' and 'unable to reset hardware'
>> > messages:
>> >
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > Anything else I might try?
>>
>> Are you running hald? I have the same error messages and can work around
>> that problem by inserting the wireless card after hald is started.
>
> How very very weird.  That worked.  Why might this be?  It's quite
> clearly a driver/application problem of some kind...


I don't know. I brought this up some time ago but noone had a clue...
It would be nice to find out how to prevent hald probing the cardbus,  
so you could insert the card before starting hald.
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