Re: [Madwifi-devel] AR5008/AR5418 re-branding
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From: Pavel R. <pr...@gn...> - 2008-07-09 01:23:11
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On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:20 -0400, D. Walsh wrote: > [28359.516679] wifi0: Atheros AR5418 chip found (MAC 12.10, PHY > SChip > 8.1, Radio 12.0) > [28359.523930] ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros 5418: mem=0xe0200000, irq=16 > dale@D975XBX2KR:~/madwifi$ lsmod|grep ath > ath_rate_sample 16000 1 > ath_pci 246200 0 > wlan 235888 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci > ath_hal 252512 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci > dale@D975XBX2KR:~/madwifi$ sudo ath_info 0xe0200000 > [sudo] password for dale: > -==Device Information==- > MAC Revision: 5418 (0xca) > Unable to read EEPROM Magic value! > dale@D975XBX2KR:~/madwifi$ If MadWifi can initialize the device but ath_info cannot read the magic value from the EEPROM, it probably means that ath_info is not reading in the right place. The MAC revision is correct, so I guess ath_info is doing something wrong with EEPROM. Perhaps 5418 uses different registers for EEPROM access. But it's all hidden in the HAL. So I guess the new EEPROM access procedure needs to be reverse engineered using mmio tracing. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin |