Did ath9k/ath10k support AR9388?

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Thu Aug 15 08:02:14 EDT 2013


"Ryane Luo" <luoqiwen1984 at gmail.com> writes:

> I got an Apple original WIFI module which chip is AR9388. Plug it to
> my latop, it doesn't recognize by Ubuntu 12.04 .
>
> And try to plug it to my router(base on Linux--DD-WRT ). ath9k doesn't work for it.
>
> Module works fine on Win7 PC, so HW is ok.
>
> AR9388 module is cheap and with 450M performance, very familar at AR9380.
>
> Anyone know howto support it by ath9k and ath10k ?
>
> Try lspci at the router, got this:
> #lspci
> 00:00.0 Class 0200:168c:abcd
> When manual add Device Id to the src code, it failure again.
>

[...]

> [ 12.953229] ath: phy0: Couldn't reset chip
> [ 12.957311] ath: phy0: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -5
> [ 12.964574] ath9k 0000:00:00.0: Failed to initialize device
> [ 12.970146] ath9k: probe of 0000:00:00.0 failed with error -5
> [ 12.981140] ath: phy1: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -5
> [ 12.988414] ath9k 0000:01:00.0: Failed to initialize device
> [ 12.993971] ath9k: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -5

You should send ath9k questions to ath9k-devel:

ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org

AFAIK AR9388 belongs to the family of chips which is supported by ath9k.
ath10k will not support it.

-- 
Kalle Valo



More information about the ath10k mailing list