Re: [Madwifi-users] Another AR5418 no interface issue
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From: Pavel R. <pr...@gn...> - 2008-03-27 20:38:45
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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 01:28 -0400, Nate Hausrath wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been struggling for quite some time to get my D-Link AR5418 > express card to work. I've read quite a few posts and emails about > this card, but nothing seems to work for me. Particularly, I've been > attempting to get the latest trunk to work by following the > instructions found here: > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_checkout_and_install_madwifi_experimental_driver_for_ar5008 > > I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on an HP dv9000. It would also be useful if you said if your distro is 64-bit. > I do have the integrated card installed and running and I'm not sure > if that would cause problems (I wanted to have both capable of running > simultaneously). Anyway, here is some output: > > lspci -v: > > 04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 > 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Unknown device 3a6f This looks like D-Link DWA-643 (expresscard). Try running "ath_info bc000000" as root - it will show the exact components used in your card. > Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17 > Memory at bc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] > [size=64K] I'm a bit concerned about "disabled" here. I'm not seeing it on my PCIe card. > [ 728.000000] ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133) > [ 728.012000] wlan: svn r3406 > [ 728.016000] ath_pci: svn r3406 > [ 728.016000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > [ 728.028000] MadWifi: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3) HAL is indeed the latest, and it cannot work with that card. > I think that's about it on information. I know the card works because > I've tested it in Windows (blah), but I'm desperate for help so I can > get it to work in Linux (I'm probably just missing something obvious)! > Thanks in advance for any ideas! I don't see anything obviously wrong. I would suggest that you test the card with the Window drivers from http://www.atheros.cz/ and ndiswrapper. That would allow to test whether Linux support for expresscards is correct. You could also test the card with the Atheros provided HAL from https://madwifi.org/ticket/1679 (32-bit only). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin |