#370: Problem during the boot: "wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware
revision not supported' (HAL status 13)"
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: mrenzmann
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Milestone: version 0.9.x - progressive
release candidate phase
Component: madwifi: other | Version: trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: Hardware revision not
supported (HAL status 13)
Patch_attached: 1 |
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Urk. Further testing revealed that (a) Dadwifi _does_ use the new HAL
code, but they didn't delete the old directory (#1112); and (b) the
problem persists but after repeated eject/insert cycles, it will come up
eventually.
It's the intermittency of the problem that made me think the writel was
making a difference, when in fact I was changing a file that wasn't being
compiled in.
Interestingly, if I remove the byteswapping on my machine, it'll always
find and initialise the card, but the HAL comes back with "card did not
respond as expected" when trying to change channels to scan.
This suggests that the byte-swapping being set up on the Atheros chipset
at reset time (as per source:branches/dadwifi/ath_hal/ah_os.h) is possibly
not always set up correctly. It'd prolly be easier if the atheros chipset
did no byteswapping, since writel already byteswaps into little endian, I
believe, on PowerPC at least.
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/370>
MadWifi <http://madwifi.org/>
Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity
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