David.Edmondson at Sun.COM wrote: >>Can you give some more detailed info? >> >> > >Sure. The machine is a Ferrari 3400 with the Broadcom mini-pci NIC >replaced with a Wistron CM9. The PCI id of the card is 185f,1012 and >169c,13 is listed in the 'compatible' property. Would complete >"prtconf -pv" output be useful? > >This machine also has frkit installed, so an ath driver was present >before I installed SUNWatheros and SUNWwlanu. > > > >>Such as when and how did you get the error messages, >> >> > >The message appears in /var/adm/messages regularly (about 10 times in >quick succession every 5 minutes) when the interface is plumbed. > >(Incidentally, "wificonfig -i ath0 scan" doesn't list any networks >until the interface is plumbed. Is this correct? I might wish to >look for wireless networks _before_ deciding to plumb the interface.) > > Yes, the interface must first be plumbed to enable the interrupt and then it can do 'wificonfig -i ath0 scan'.
>>which version Solaris you're using. >> >> > >Solaris Nevada build 21 running 64 bit (not tried 32 bit). The ath >driver is listed as version 1.1 and modinfo says that it is 31048 >bytes big. > > > >>Also could you please try with the debug version ath driver and send >>me the content of /var/adm/messages? >> >> > >Sorry for my ignorance - where would I find the debug version? > > You may download ath binary from OpenSolaris website http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/ath-0.1-bin.tar.gz Then # gunzip -c ath-0.1-bin.tar.gz | tar xf - # cp debug64/ath /kernel/drv/amd64/ At the same time, I'm trying to find a CM9 so that I could re-produce the error messages. Thanks, Judy >dme. > >
