kldstat doesn't show ath_hal [AR2425]

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

The ath driver right doesn't (currently!) build a separate HAL and ath
driver module. It's something I plan on doing sometime soon as part of
the embedded MIPS board support though.

Anyway, it probed/attached. The AR2425 is just a different bus variant
of the AR2424. So it's detected fine.

Now, why it isn't working - I'm not sure. Compile it up with
ATH_DEBUG, AH_DEBUG nad ATH_DIAGAPI in your kernel config file, then
compile up tools/ath/ath/athstats/ and run it for me.



Adrian

On 9 June 2013 11:06, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got an Atheros card, AR2425, which is supposed to be supported by
> ath_hal(4), according to the man page.
>
> dmesg|grep -i Ath
> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xd6000000-0xd600ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
> pci2
> ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0
>
> I can see that ath_hal is listed in the kernel config file:
>
> egrep 'ath_|wlan_' GENERIC
> device   wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support
> device   wlan_ccmp  # 802.11 CCMP support
> device   wlan_tkip  # 802.11 TKIP support
> device   wlan_amrr  # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm
> device   ath_pci  # Atheros pci/cardbus glue
> device   ath_hal  # pci/cardbus chip support
> device   ath_rate_sample  # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
>
> kldstat doesn't show ath_hal as having been loaded. Is that normal?
>
> kldstat -v|egrep 'wlan|ath_'
>   98 pci/ath_pci
>   434 wlan
>   433 wlan_wep
>   432 wlan_tkip
>   431 wlan_ccmp
>   430 wlan_amrr
>   436 wlan_sta  435 wlan_ratectl_none
>
> Long story short, I can't seem to be able to configure my wireless, despite
> following the instructions given in the handbook.
>
> Here's my /etc/rc.conf:
> cat /etc/rc.conf
> hostname="box0"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> moused_enable="YES"
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> powerd_enable="YES"
> # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
> dumpdev="AUTO"
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="ssid plan9 WPA DHCP"
> hald_enable="YES"
> dbus_enable="YES"
> linux_enable="YES"
> ifconfig_re0="DHCP"
>
> And my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
> cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> eapol_version=2
> ap_scan=1
> fast_reauth=1
>
> network={
>         ssid="plan9"
>         psk=wpa_passphrase-generated psk
> }
> ifconfig -a
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>         ether 00:24:2c:5e:06:f2
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>         status: associated
> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
>         ether 00:23:8b:b2:e5:1f
>         inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:24:2c:5e:06:f2
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid plan9 channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g)
>         regdomain 103 indoor ecm authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy OFF
>         txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle
> 250
>         roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL
>
> 'ifconfig wlan0 list scan' returns nothing.
>  uname -a
> FreeBSD box0 9.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Mon Apr 29 18:11:52
> UTC 2013 root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
>
> I've tried everything I could think of, still no luck.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Alexander Kapshuk.
>
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