Re: [Madwifi-users] Toshiba A60

[Greg B. <gb...@cs...>]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I'm using the stock 2.6.8-12 mandrake kernel.  I will try masking the 
IRQs.  Hopefully that will help.

I am also having problems with the modem.  Hopefully, that will be fixed 
soon.

Greg

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Chris Davies wrote:

> What kernel are you using?
> 
> pci=usepirqmask   try adding that to your boot line
> 
> I've got an A70 running 2.6.10 (and previously 2.6.9) and I don't have a
> problem, but, my old Toshiba needed that line with 2.4 because
> EVERYTHING shared the same interrupt.  
> 
> Are you running PlugandPlay in your kernel?  (I don't know if this
> helps)  ACPI?  I had some difficulties with it on mine, but, in 2.6.10
> it does seem much smoother.  The only thing not working on my laptop is
> the slmodem - I can talk to it, but, any attempt to dial fails (this is
> a problem with alsa, not with the kernel)  I can send you my kernel
> config if you want -- but I only have a 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 that work.
> 
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:43 -0330, Greg Baker wrote:
> > Hi guys.  Please forgive me if this has been asked before, I'm new to the wifi 
> > scene.
> > 
> > I recently bought a Toshiba A60 laptop which includes an atheros wifi card.  I 
> > compiled madwifi fine, and can modprobe ath_pci.  I can even do a scan for 
> > networks and see a bunch.
> > 
> > My problem is that it shares an IRQ with my sound card.  If I load the sound 
> > module first, then it seems to work okay, but if I load the ath_pci module 
> > first (which happens on bootup) my sound doesn't work.
> > 
> > Here's the lspci descriptions of the cards...
> > 
> > 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC 
> > (rev 01)
> >         Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp.: Unknown device 7064
> >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
> >         Memory at d0010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> >         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> > 
> > 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio 
> > Controller
> >         Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff10
> >         Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
> >         Memory at f0000400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> > 
> > If I can't shuffle IRQs on the ath_pci module, does anyone have any suggestion 
> > as to how to get the sound module to load before ath_pci?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help...
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
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