freebsd 9 rc2 and Atheros ar5413

[Francesco Rossi]

On 12.12.2011 15:19, Francesco Rossi wrote:
> Hello and thanks in advance for your attention.
> I am new to FreeBSD, but I must say that I love it. I am in Florence 
> and I apologize if my English is not quite correct, but I ask your 
> help please. I have a problem with my wireless card atheros ar5413.
> I'm using FreeBSD 9 RC2, I tried PC-BSD RC2, very convenient to 
> quickly get a working desktop, but the kernel at boot gives me this 
> error:
>
> ath0: mem <Atheros 5413> 0xfdee0000 0xfdeeffff irq 16 at device-4.0 on 
> pci2
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 14
> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
>
> The result of pciconf-lbcv on the wireless card is as follows:
>
> ath0 @ pci0: 2:4:0: class = 0x020000 card = 0x500111ad chip rev = 0x01 
> hdr = 0x001b168c = 0x00
>      vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>      device = 'AR5413 802.11abg NIC'
>      class = network
>      subclass = ethernet
>      bar [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xfdee0000, size 65536, 
> enabled
>      Chapter 01 [44] = D0 D3 current powerspec 2 Supports D0
>
>
>
> I went and checked the file GENERIC kernel configuration parameters:
>
>            device ath
>            device ath_hal
>            options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
>            device ath_rate_sample
>            device wlan
> I added
>
>            device wlan
>
> It was not there and instead I removed this line:
>
>            device ath_pci
>
> Then I recompiled the kernel and the warning no longer appears at 
> startup:
>
> ath0: mem <Atheros 5413> 0xfdee0000 0xfdeeffff irq 16 at device-4.0 on 
> pci2
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 14
> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
> But the wireless interface is still not recognized.
>
> If I add back the following line:
>   device ath_pci
>
> and recompile the kernel, then start the message
>
> ath0 attach returned 6.
>
> After this attempt, I tried removing and adding the following lines in 
> loader.conf:
>
> if_ath_load = "YES"
> if_alc_load = "YES"
> if_ath_pci_load = "YES"
>
>
> but it does not solve the problem.
> Help me please
>