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Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

From: Andre Naehring (anaehringlinvat.de)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 04:02:57 CST


On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> On 2008/01/30 15:26, Dennis Davis wrote:
>>
>> "wireless driver reports an error and does not work" is short on
>> detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs installing
>> (eg the firmware for the iwi driver) to get it to work.
>
> people with Eee PC need to test -current snapshots, the wd/wdc
> changes which are in them (not yet committed) will affect you
> (hopefully to your advantage, there should be much lower cpu
> use during disk activity).

So, installed current from Jan 28 on an usb stick and booted. Ethernet
works fine on the eee, but the wireless always reports

ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4096

when I want to set something.

according to the manpage, this should not happen.

dmesg follows...

OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #652: Mon Jan 28 14:04:36 MST 2008
     pvalchevi386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
     cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz ("GenuineIntel"
     686-class) 631 MHz
     cpu0:
     FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF
     real mem = 527527936 (503MB)
     avail mem = 502153216 (478MB)
     mainbus0 at root
     bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 01/04/08, BIOS32 rev. 0
     0xf0010, SMBIOS rev. 2.5 0xf06c0 (37 entries)
     bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "0703" date
     01/04/2008
     bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 701
     apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
     apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
     acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
     pcibios0 at bios0: rev 3.0 0xf0000/0x10000
     pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 0xf76b0/176 (9 entries)
     pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801FB LPC" rev
     0x00)
     pcibios0: PCI bus #5 is the last bus
     bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xf800!
     cpu0 at mainbus0
     pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
     pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82915GM Host" rev 0x04
     agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000
     vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82915GM Video" rev 0x04
     wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
     wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
     "Intel 82915GM Video" rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not
     configured
     azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801FB HD Audio" rev 0x04:
     irq 5
     azalia0: codec[s]: Realtek/0x0662
     audio0 at azalia0
     ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x04: irq 5
     pci1 at ppb0 bus 4
     ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x04: irq 11
     pci2 at ppb1 bus 3
     lii0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Attansic Technology L2" rev 0xa0: irq
     11, address 00:1e:8c:b9:38:d8
     ukphy0 at lii0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 2:
     OUI 0x001374, model 0x0002
     ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x04: irq 10
     pci3 at ppb2 bus 1
     ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: irq 10
     ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR0W, address 00:15:af:75:d9:e0
     uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: irq 3
     uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: irq 7
     uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: irq 10
     uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: irq 5
     ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: irq 3
     usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
     uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
     ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xd4
     pci4 at ppb3 bus 5
     ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801FBM LPC" rev 0x04: PM
     disabled
     pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801FBM SATA" rev 0x04:
     DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to
     compatibility
     wd0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <SILICONMOTION SM223AC>
     wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3815MB, 7815024 sectors
     wd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
     ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801FB SMBus" rev 0x04:
     irq 7
     iic0 at ichiic0
     spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-5300CL5
     SO-DIMM
     usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
     uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
     usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
     uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
     usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
     uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
     usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
     uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
     isa0 at ichpcib0
     isadma0 at isa0
     pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
     pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
     pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
     wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
     pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
     pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
     wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
     pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
     midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
     spkr0 at pcppi0
     npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
     biomask e7fd netmask effd ttymask ffff
     mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
     umass0 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "USBest
     Technology USB Mass Storage Device" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2
     umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
     scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets
     sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <Ut163, USB2FlashStorage, 0.00> SCSI2
     0/direct removable
     sd0: 963MB, 122 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 1974271 sec
     total
     umass1 at uhub0 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 "ENE UB6225" rev
     2.00/1.00 addr 3
     umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
     scsibus1 at umass1: 2 targets
     sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <USB2.0, CardReader SD0, 0100> SCSI0
     0/direct removable
     sd1: drive offline
     softraid0 at root
     root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b

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andre