Daniel, Portwell's Q7 BIOS works without any issues. On the list of board's that did not detect the subvendor id are as follows:
CongaTec QA Q7 module KaRo Q7 with uBoot boot loader. At the same time I have ordered some DNXA-116 AR9382 chip radios, it would be interesting to see how they fare. At any rate, that's valuable information and I will contact the manufacturer of the board. Thank you. Best Regards, Hasan R. >-----Original Message----- >From: Daniel Smith [mailto:viscous.liq...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:26 PM >To: Hasan Rashid >Cc: Adrian Chadd; ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org >Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] Sparklan WPEA-121N AR9382 168c:abcd > >On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Hasan Rashid ><hras...@avionica.com> wrote: >> >> Adrian, >> >> This is not an OS issue as I see similar results in Windows, >it is definitely a low-level hardware issue. >> >> I am using a Portwell PQ7-C100XL carrier board with a >Portwell PQ7-M105 Q7 module. The radio is initialized properly >without any driver hacks with that cpu+board pair. >> >> Portwell Q7 M105 has AMI BIOS v2.14.1219 on it. >> >> Regards, Hasan R. >> > >Hey All, > >We actually had the exact same problem with a board we were >prototyping on. Working with the manufacturer it turned out to be a >"feature" of the AMI BIOS they were using on the card (sorry I don't >have the version right off hand). What happens is that the AMI BIOS >does a Root Bridge reset on all the PCI-e buses upon power on. This >reset can interfere with the initialization of certain types of cards >that have serial eeprom that are based off an R-C time constant >circuit at Power-On. Luckily for us the manufacturer was willing to >patch the BIOS and resolved our issue. Perhaps you can contact >Portwell with this info and see if they are willing to help. > >Daniel > This communication contains information that may be confidential or privileged. The information is solely intended for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any disclosure, copy, distribution, or use of the contents of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or by electronic mail. _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
