Re: [ath9k-devel] atk9k PCIe-card sometimes comes up with wrong PCI ID

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Schwingen
On 10/21/2013 02:51 PM, Holger Schurig wrote: Hi ! I'm using several Sparklan WPEA 110N cards that normally come up as 168c:002a. But sometimes they announces themself as 168c:ff1c. Even lspci -nn -A intel-conf2 (which goes directly to the PCI address range) shows the wrong PCI ID in such

Re: [ath9k-devel] Sparklan WPEA-121N AR9382 168c:abcd

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Schwingen
On 03/28/2013 04:04 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: I talked with an expert of my unit about resetting PCI express cards. The units have a special controller (I^2C) able to power off and power on the card slots. I was told that this does not handle the PCI reset line correctly (leaves it open),

Re: [ath9k-devel] Sparklan WPEA-121N AR9382 168c:abcd

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Schwingen
Am 27.03.2013 23:33, schrieb Adrian Chadd: Sure, here's what's going on: * There's a PCI bus reset. It's a pin. On the PCI bus. * The BIOS can yank that down to reset all the devices. * There's timing requirements for how long that pin can be pulled down to reset and release. * After the

Re: [ath9k-devel] support for AR9220

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Schwingen
Queenie de Melo wrote: Dear All, Iam using kernel 2.6.27 due to cross-compile some reasons but when i use the lastest ath9k, i get only the wlan0 interface. Is AR9220 chipset supported by ath9k driver? how can i verify that? It is definitely supported - I have an AR9220-based card in my

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k firmware

2009-05-22 Thread Michael Schwingen
hong zhang wrote: firmware runs on microprocessor on wifi chip and driver runs on main CPU. If no firmware, how driver utilizes microprocessor on wifi chip? If driver all runs on main CPU, does it waiste resource of microprocessor of wifi chip and slow down speed? The Atheros PCI chips