#2079: Card cannot work with newest madwifi-ng (kernel fault)
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Reporter: anonymous | Type: defect
Status: new | Priority: critical
Component: madwifi: driver | Version: trunk
Keywords: | Patch_attached: 0
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{{{
[EMAIL PROTECTED] net]# modprobe ath_pci
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.35-2nnd/net/ath_hal.o will taint the
kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary
See #export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Module ath_hal loaded, with warnings
Module wlan loaded, with warnings
/lib/modules/2.4.35-2nnd/net/ath_pci.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.35-2nnd/net/ath_pci.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.35-2nnd/net/ath_pci.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.35-2nnd/net/ath_pci.o: insmod ath_pci failed
}}}
{{{
[EMAIL PROTECTED] woser]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
wlan_scan_sta 9660 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ath_rate_sample 12664 1 (autoclean)
wlan 179920 1 [wlan_scan_sta ath_rate_sample]
ath_hal 227680 1 [ath_rate_sample]
ipt_state 516 2 (autoclean)
ipt_MASQUERADE 1412 1 (autoclean)
ipt_limit 932 1 (autoclean)
ipt_REJECT 3140 2 (autoclean)
ipt_multiport 644 2 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 1656 1 (autoclean)
8139too 14484 1
mii 2220 0 [8139too]
ip_nat_irc 2096 0 (unused)
ip_nat_ftp 2544 0 (unused)
iptable_nat 18148 3 [ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp]
ip_tables 12360 9 [ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_limit
ipt_REJECT ipt_multiport iptable_filter iptable_nat]
ip_conntrack_irc 2832 1
ip_conntrack_ftp 3760 1
ip_conntrack 20852 2 [ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_irc
ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp]
8390 6172 0 (unused)
crc32 2892 0 [8139too 8390]
}}}
In the DMESG we can see:
{{{
AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133)
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:0e.0
MadWifi: ath_attach: Switching rfkill capability off.
wifi0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC 7.8, PHY 2112A 4.5, Radio 5.6)
ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xe0800000, irq=12
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c891bf08
printing eip:
c038ac0c
*pde = 07ff3067
*pte = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c038ac0c>] Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: c891bf00 ebx: c11ec0c4 ecx: 00000008 edx: 000003ef
esi: c891bf00 edi: c7f726e0 ebp: 000003f0 esp: c6b9ff54
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process lspci (pid: 403, stackpage=c6b9f000)
Stack: c891bf00 c7f726e0 00000000 c11ec000 00000362 c015d1b4 c7f726e0
c11ec000
c7f726f8 00000000 00000007 00000000 00000006 00000000 c0b7e960
c0b7e980
ffffffea 00000400 c0141835 c0b7e960 00124000 00000400 c0b7e980
c6b9e000
Call Trace: [<c015d1b4>] [<c0141835>] [<c0108bd3>]
Code: 8b 58 08 53 68 a6 aa 46 c0 57 e8 e5 29 dd ff 83 c4 0c 8b 57
}}}
When I try to lspci it shows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] woser]# lspci
Segmenation Fault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] woser]#
When I remove loaded modules:
{{{
Lspci shows:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:001a (rev 01) --- This is
Tp-link 551G
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
}}}
Card 100% good, because it work properly in the madwifi-old --- the dmesg
shows it
{{{
ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath_rate_sample: 1.2
ath_pci: 0.9.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:0e.0
Build date: Jul 24 2008
Debugging version (IEEE80211)
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
ath0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
Debugging version (ATH)
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xe0800000, irq=12
}}}
I'd like to know what I can do to work this card
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/2079>
madwifi.org <http://madwifi.org/>
Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity
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