uath under FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE

[Weongyo Jeong]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:44:46PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> On Monday 04 January 2010 05:31:18 pm Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 03:57:56PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > > On Monday 04 January 2010 03:34:41 pm Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> > > > Could you please test with attached patch?  Today the device I ordered
> > > > is delivered and I tried to test with it.  One thing, it looks weird,
> > > > I noticed is that after uploading the firmware, idProduct is increased
> > > > not decreased.
> > > >
> > > > After patching, you should rebuild the module.
> > >
> > > I didn't get an attachment...
> > 
> > Attached.
> > 
> > regards,
> > Weongyo Jeong
> > 
> 
> I had to place:
> # Firmware download for Netgear WG111T USB ethernet.
> attach 100 {
> 	match "vendor"	"0x1385";
> 	match "product"	"0x4251";
> 	action "/usr/sbin/uathload -d /dev/$device-name";
> };
> 
> in /etc/devd.conf, but I later moved it to /usr/local/etc/devd/WG111T.conf
> 
> Then it appeared in the ifconfig as uath0.
> 
> But I get errors later when I run wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c 
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> Those errors are:
> uath0: timeout waiting for reply to cmd 0x8 (8)
> uath0: could not start target, error 35
> 
> Your patch DOES work, AFAIK.

One thing you can try is that changing your firmware image which could
be downloaded at

	http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/ar5523.bin

To use this firmware reverts all patches and changes you made then runs
uathload as follows:

	# uathload -d /dev/ugenX.X /tmp/ar5523.bin

regards,
Weongyo Jeong