[Madwifi-users] latest madwifi not loading: (HAL status 3)

[Tim H. <tim...@ya...>]

Greetings,

I'm using madwifi on an IXP425 platform with mini-pci cards.  For a while now,
I've been using a CVS version from several months ago with the following
characteristics:

snapgear 3.1 distro
linux 2.4.24-uc0
Intel Access Lib v1.4
wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL) (wlan.o)
ath_hal: 0.9.12.14 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, REGOPS_FUNC)
ath_rate_onoe: 1.0 
ath_pci: 0.9.4.12 (EXPERIMENTAL) 
madwifi CVS date: unknown, several months ago

everything was working fine, however I was having some minor issues and wanted
to update to the current code to see if they went away and/or be able to ask
questions.  Once I updated to the following:

  madwifi CVS 5-19-05
    wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL) (wlan.o)
    ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
REGOPS_FUNC)
    ath_rate_onoe: 1.0 
    ath_pci: 0.9.4.12 (EXPERIMENTAL) 

With this new version, I get the following behavior:

# insmod wlan.o             
Using /lib/modules/2.4.24-uc0/wlan.o
wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL)
# insmod ath_hal.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.24-uc0/ath_hal.o
ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, REGOPS_FUNC)
# insmod ath_rate_onoe.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.24-uc0/ath_rate_onoe.o
ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
# insmod ath_pci.o  
Using /lib/modules/2.4.24-uc0/ath_pci.o
ath_pci: 0.9.4.12 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL
status 3)
ath%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL
status 3)
ath%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL
status 3)


Where should I be looking for issues?  Again, the hardware and surounding
software has not changed, only the madwifi driver version.  Perhaps I'm
building the driver wrong?  I noticed that there were some changes in the
directory structure where the hal resides (hal/linux to hal/public).  I'm
building with the following steps (linux kernel is 2.4.24-uc0 at
/usr/src/snapgear/linux-2.4.x)

1) Edit madwifi file hal/public/xscale-be-elf.inc and changed 
TOOLPREFIX to arm-linux-

2) Build madwifi

bash# make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- TARGET=xscale-be-elf
KERNELPATH=/usr/src/snapgear/linux-2.4.x KERNELRELEASE=2.4.24-uc0

3) Force softfpa instructions for ah_osdep.o to match the binary HAL in 
hal.o

bash# cd ath_hal
bash# arm-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/snapgear/linux-2.4.x/include \
-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -Os -fno-strict-aliasing \
-fno-common -Uarm -fno-common -pipe -mapcs-32 -D__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__=5 \
-mcpu=xscale -mtune=xscale -mshort-load-bytes -Uarm -DMODULE \
-include ./../include/compat.h -I./../include -I./../hal -I./../hal/linux \
-I./../ath_hal -I./.. -DAH_BYTE_ORDER=AH_BIG_ENDIAN -DAH_REGOPS_FUNC \
-march=armv4 -mbig-endian -Wa,-mfpu=softfpa -fno-strict-aliasing \
-fno-common -mapcs-32 -mtune=xscale  -mshort-load-bytes -nostdinc \
-iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ah_osdep  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ah_osdep.c

bash# cd ../
bash# make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- TARGET=xscale-be-elf
KERNELPATH=/usr/src/snapgear/linux-2.4.x KERNELRELEASE=2.4.24-uc0


Any advice is appreciated,

Tim