On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: > Mohammed Shafi wrote: >> > Is this a serious proposal from Atheros, or just your attempt at >> > a quick fix? >> >> No! its purely a personal idea (am completely responsible for the >> mistake),and I will take a look at it carefully to fix this. > > Sorry, I didn't mean that you made a mistake, just that the > suggestion probably would not get us closer to the actual issue. > > Bus level issues are indeed difficult. :\
thanks, i did not know that. thought simple as adding another device id. > > >> > A device having an unexpected PCI id means that something is really >> > wrong in the device or on the bus, and the solution is rarely to >> > pretend that it didn't happen.] >> >> Yeah I can see that, hoping that I may get a correct Device ID from >> the reporter. I dont think 'abcd' is a proper vendor id. > > Yes, it's easy to spot. The question is how we can find out *why* > this happened, so that this error case can be prevented. Yes sure. > > >> > Since this card should work fine in principle, maybe it's some issue >> > with missing, or wrong, firmware stored on the Linux system. >> >> AR9382 does not seems to have firmware > > Aha! That's only for the USB devices maybe. I don't know much detail > for these latest devices. > currently only ath9k_htc needs firmware. > >> and you have any idea what might went wrong. > > Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. Your suggestions about what might have went wrong, as you had already told it might be a bus level issue. > > >> Also why its detected as Ethernet Controller rather than >> Network controller. > > This string comes from the pciutils package and could easily have > changed. Better look at the numerical device class code, which is > what is read from hardware. thanks, I will look into that. > > But I expect that when one thing in config space (device id) is bogus > then the rest of config space is also quite possibly bogus, for the > same reason, whatever it is. > > > //Peter > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
