On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:32:40PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> Zane C.B. wrote:
> >With the GENERIC kernel on releng_8 and releng_8_0, I am having
> >issues with the Atheros wireless on my laptop.
> >
> >Upon boot I am getting the message below.
> >
> >ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> >ath0: 0x10000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
> >ath0: cannot map register space
> >device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
> >
> >Any suggestions? It was working fine on releng_6.
>
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/wireless-8.php
>
> Been there, done that, documented it.
The attach that fails happen long before wlan devices and user level
ifconfigs.
Maybe "pciconf -lv" will show something or maybe showing some of the
pci space with pciconf -r will give an idea why the attach fails.
John
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