NetBSD Problem Report #50811

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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:36:45 -0500
From: Kaz Blocks <kazbloxmc@gmail.com>
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To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: TP-Link PCMCIA devices with ath/athn chips not supported

>Number:         50811
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       TP-Link PCMCIA devices with ath/athn chips not supported
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 15 18:40:00 +0000 2016
>Last-Modified:  Tue Mar 01 05:29:11 +0000 2016
>Originator:     Jackson Bryn
>Release:        NetBSD 7.0
>Organization:

>Environment:
 System: NetBSD nbsd 7.0 NetBSD 7.0 (NOPMSTOUCHPAD) #0: Sat Feb 13 19:19:30 UTC 2016 root@kaz:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/NOPMSTOUCHPAD i386
>Description:
     Even though NetBSD had ath and athn wireless support for ages, it
 doesn't support the TP-Link PCMCIA cards using these chips.
>How-To-Repeat:
 Insert a TP-Link PCMCIA card that has an Atheros chip. (ex: TL-WN610G)

     1. type 'dmesg | grep ath'
     Outcome: no output except kernel module path.

     2. type 'pcictl [Any PCMCIA bridge, for me it was pci0] list
     Outcome: Nothing. my only output was:

     00:00:0: Opti 82C701 (host bridge, revision 0x32)
     00:01:0: Opti 82C700 (ISA bridge, revision 0x31)
     00:10:0: Texas Instruments PCI1131 PCI-CardBus Bridge (CardBus bridge, revision 0x01)
     00:10:1: Texas Instruments PCI1131 PCI-CardBus Bridge (CardBus bridge, revision 0x01)
     00:18:0: Neomagic MagicGraph 128XD (VGA display, revision 0x01)
     00:19:0: Opti 82C861 (USB serial bus, OHCI, revision 0x10)
     00:20:0: Opti 82D568 (IDE mass storage, interface 0x80, revision 0x30)

>Fix:
     It should be easy to assign a vendor ID for TP-Link in pcmciadevs
 and add hardware entries somewhere else and assign them to atheros
 chips, but I don't know how to do this.

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->kern-bug-people
Responsible-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:29:11 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
Fix up mangled PR

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