Rebranding Atheros AR5006EG to a Vanilla Card

[kizwan]

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I have a samsung n310 (go). According to lspci output from ubuntu 9.10 it has a ar5001 card.

 

ath_info tells that wifi card has just 802.11g capability.

 

I have checked the card (phisically by taking apart the laptop) and the label says that it is ar5bxb63.

 

What i have noticed is that after rebranding the card with ath_info, if you dont power off the laptop and just reboot it you will not notice the changes from lspci output, but you will see it from the ath_info eeprom dump. So after each rebranding try, you should power off the laptop to cut all the current in the circuits of the wifi card.

 

Anyway i have initially used the ids from first post and i was getting kernel panic upon mac os startup. Then i have tried a couple of other ids but all of them failed. Then i have checked Info.plist file at /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleAirPortBcrm4311.kext/Contents/Info.plist. I saw that there are lines like <string>pci106b,4e</string>. My guess was this lines should be the ids of the compatible cards.

 

I have tried to use that ids to rebrand my card. I have used 14e4,4311 as subvendor,subdevice ids. Then when i boot to mac os x i saw that i have a airport icon at the top bar but it was gray and has a X sign in it. When i try to turn on the airport i am getting below logs from /var/log/system.log

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You're trying to re-brand your atheros card to broadcom card. You should re-brand your card with sub-device & sub-vendor id taken from mac-compatible atheros wireless card. Follow tutorial from the first page carefully.

 

People has complain that they experiencing kernel panic after re-branding wireless card. I has not experiencing this but try to remove/move the broadcom kext to another location.

 

Be careful, you're "one step" closer to brick your card.

 

kizwan

[kdrrdgn]

The problem about my card is that it is 802.11g only and there is no such mac compatible atheros card or i couldnt find one. If you can suggest a subvendor and subdevice id which is compatible with mac i would like to try it.

 

Btw i may be lucky since i have tried to rebrand my card dozen times. Sometimes totally wrong tries. Wrong ids at wrong addresses. Nothing happened yet. I can still reach the card. This does not mean that i suggest to other people to try silly rebranding attempts. Others may not be as lucky as i am.

 

Right now i am installing a fresh snow leopard. I was not sure if the errors was because of my previous attemts to play with the kexts. Current ids i am using are 168c 001c which belongs to atheros 5001 card but it is a/b/g device.

 

Let's see what is going to happen

[kizwan]

The problem about my card is that it is 802.11g only and there is no such mac compatible atheros card or i couldnt find one. If you can suggest a subvendor and subdevice id which is compatible with mac i would like to try it.

According to:-

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/hardware:intdevicespecs#atheros_ar5bxb63_network_card
http://www.atheros.com/pt/AR5007EG.htm

 

Compliant with IEEE 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11d and 802.11i standards

 

Btw i may be lucky since i have tried to rebrand my card dozen times. Sometimes totally wrong tries. Wrong ids at wrong addresses. Nothing happened yet. I can still reach the card. This does not mean that i suggest to other people to try silly rebranding attempts. Others may not be as lucky as i am.

Good luck then.

 

kizwan

[kdrrdgn]

Kizwan,

if you look at the list http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids you will see that the ids (106b,004e airport extreme) suggested at the first post belongs to a broadcam bcm4306 card so i am not sure if atheros and broadcom cards are so different.

 

I also have tried to use atheros branded models but i am getting kernel panic (or kernel error messages). I will continue to try other ids too. I dont know if it is ever possible to use my wifi card on mac os x but i dont see any chance but to try since we are not in a well documented environment.

 

So if you have any solid suggestion i would like to try that too.

[kizwan]

Kizwan,

if you look at the list http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids you will see that the ids (106b,004e airport extreme) suggested at the first post belongs to a broadcam bcm4306 card so i am not sure if atheros and broadcom cards are so different.

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106b = sub-vendor id, Apple Computer Inc.

004e = sub-device id, from the first post is for b/g card.

 

To differentiate between atheros & broadcom cards, you need to look at vendor id.

 

Atheros:-

vendor id = 168c

 

Broadcom:-

vendor id = 14e4

 

kizwan

[kdrrdgn]

Yeah 106b is Apple computer inc not atheros. If you look at the vendor (not subvendor) it is broadcom not atheros. So your suggestion to use atheros branded ids contradicts with the initial post you have suggested that i need to fallow.

 

Anyway, what was your suggestion again? I am still interested to do if you have a suggestion to make my card work with mac os x.

[kizwan]

Yeah 106b is Apple computer inc not atheros. If you look at the vendor (not subvendor) it is broadcom not atheros. So your suggestion to use atheros branded ids contradicts with the initial post you have suggested that i need to fallow.

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In your post earlier you did mention that you have AR5BXB63, which is clearly atheros card with AR5007EG chipset, which also atheros chipset. So, telling that AR5BXB63 is a Broadcom card is not true. The whole idea is to change only the sub-vendor & sub-device id with mac compatible id.

 

Clearly you misunderstand. However, I wish you best of luck.

 

kizwan

[kdrrdgn]

Yes i have an atheros card and if you check the subject it says "Rebranding Atheros AR5006EG to a Vanilla Card" and the first post suggests to rebrand an Atheros card to a Broadcom card.

 

Anyway i am not trying to argue I am trying to make my card work and i am trying to share my experiences

 

My tries may be harmful or silly but i have tried the logical ones first. Since i couldnt get a result from the logical ones i have tried not logical ones too.

 

P.S: I dont recomend people to try what i have done with my card. I dont care much about it even it is bricked so i feel free to try

[rblissitt]

Hi kdrrdgn, everyone. I have the Samsung Go (N310) with its AR5007EG as well, and I followed the very thorough rebranding steps on the first page and I got the same kernel panic referencing Broadcom. I'll probably try replacing one of the remaining IDs as others have done or yank the Broadcom kext.

 

Is it even possible that a sub-vendor / sub-device ID on an Atheros card be the same as that on a Broadcom card? Is it possible that NetbookBootMaker put those two numbers into the Broadcom kext intentionally (and perhaps incorrectly)? Makes me wonder if I should reinstall but either not use NetbookBootMaker or just use it selectively.

 

Out of desperation, I bought a AR5BXB6 card, but I'm seeing reports that it might not work either.

[kdrrdgn]

Hi rblissitt,

I dont think that those ids placed into the kext by the bootmaker since i saw the same ids inside the kext of my macbook pro with leopard 10.5.8. The only difference is that there is a new kext in snow leopard called AirPortAtheros21.kext. I am not sure if it is a hacked driver placed by netbookmaker or not.

 

I dont see any chance to make my card work either. i bought a dell 1390 card. People reports that it is an official airport card. I hope it works.

[rblissitt]

kdrrdgn,

I just got my Apple-branded AR5BXB6 installed this morning and it's working perfectly - I'm using it right now. I heard on one site that the Dell 1390 works as well. One fellow had a problem with an early version of the card, so he got a later version and it worked:

http://www.computersolutions.cn/blog/2009/...n-snow-leopard/

 

The card I pulled out of my Samsung Go was labeled "AR5BXB63." My attempts to rebrand it were unsuccessful (rebranding it as a Broadcom card without knowing it was downright foolish). I never bricked the card, and Linux was always able to find it somehow.

 

Everything seems to be working perfectly now, although I haven't used it long-term. I would recommend this card; it seems like using an Apple card is a safe bet. (eBay ~ $9.00). With the Samsung Go, after you've put the back cover back on, you may have to push down lightly over the speakers to get those last two tabs to snap into place.

[stnglee]

 I bricked the card by using these parameters: pci_dev_id pci_vendor_id pci_class pci_rev_id pci_subsys_dev_id pci_subsys_vendor_id regdomain

 

Do not use it, you will brick the wireless card

 

Example # 1:

===========

EEPROM dump (512 bytes)

==========================

0000: a55a 0000 0020 0001 0000 5001 0000 004e

0008: 106b 1c0a 0100 0000 0002 0002 c606 0001

0010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0018: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3b2a d2a1 0024

0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0028: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0038: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0040: 1400 168c 001c 1402 0001 0280 140a 5001

0048: 0000 140b 106b 004e 140f 0100 1c0a 1410

0050: 5001 01c2 101a 050a 0000 1419 0cc0 0504

0058: 1005 0000 0000 101e 0001 0000 101f 000f

0060: 0000 1020 fc00 9248 1020 4924 2492 1020

0068: 0039 2800 1020 0824 5316 1020 0579 f680

0070: 1020 efff 001d 1020 be40 1aaa 1020 5554

0078: be10 1020 3007 000e 1021 0000 0000 ffff

0080: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0088: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0090: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0098: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00a0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00a8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00b0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00b8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff 0065

00c0: 3709 5003 ea6c 0401 b1b8 016e 00ff c4ff

00c8: 15a3 0005 0400 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

00d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 2d2c 0000 0000 0000

00d8: 0000 e028 a492 1c00 000e b8ca 0013 0000

00e0: 08f8 6b4b c059 0d71 0000 0000 0000 0000

00e8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

00f0: 0000 0000 2d2c 0000 0000 0000 0000 e022

00f8: 1c00 000e b8ff 0013 001b 0000 ff70 10ff

======================================

In the EEPROM Dump is OK - have succses 

Before:

======

0000: a55a 0000 0020 0001 0000 5001 0000<137a>

0008:<103c>1c0a 0100 0000 0002 0002 c606 0001

0010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0018: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0f38 3a68 001f

0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0028: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0038: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0040: 1400 168c 001c 1402 0001<0200>140a 5001

0048: 0000 140b<103c>137a>140f 0100 1c0a 1410

0050: 5001 01c2 101a 050a 0000 1419 0cc0 0504

=====================================================

After:

======

0000: a55a 0000 0020 0001 0000 5001 0000<004e>

0008:<106b>1c0a 0100 0000 0002 0002 c606 0001

0010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0018: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0f38 3a68 001f

0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0028: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0038: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0040: 1400 168c 001c 1402 0001<0280>140a 5001

0048: 0000 140b<106b>004e>140f 0100 1c0a 1410

0050: 5001 01c2 101a 050a 0000 1419 0cc0 0504

====================================================

DO NOT USE these parameters: pci_dev_id pci_vendor_id pci_class pci_rev_id pci_subsys_dev_id pci_subsys_vendor_id regdomain

=====================================================

Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG

...................... [168c:001c] (rev 01)

Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:004e]

=====================================================

ath_info -g 1:0 -w 0xfebf0000 0045 280

===========================================

ath_info -g 1:0 -w 0xfebf0000 0008 106b

ath_info -g 1:0 -w 0xfebf0000 004e 106b

===========================================

ath_info -g 1:0 -w 0xfebf0000 0007 004e

ath_info -g 1:0 -w 0xfebf0000 004f 004e

====================================================

 

Example # 2:

===========

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)

Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:004e]

 

EEPROM dump (512 bytes)

====================================

0000: a55a 0000 0040 0001 0000 5001 0000<004e>

0008: <106b>1c0a 0100 0000 01c2 0002 c606 0001

0010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0018: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ef32 7e7b 0019

0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0028: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0038: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0040: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0048: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0050: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0058: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0060: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0068: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0070: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0078: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0080: 1400 168c 001c 1402 0001<0280>140a 5001

0088: 0000 140b<106b>004e>140f 0100 1c0a 1410

0090: 5001 01c2 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0098: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00a0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff 1900 7b7e 32ef

00a8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00b0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00b8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff 0064

00c0: cd48 5003 da6e 0000 81cc 0182 00ff 2cff

00c8: 15a3 0005 0400 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

00d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 2d2c 0000 0000 0000

00d8: 0000 e028 a492 1c00 000e b8ca 01b3 0000

00e0: 08f8 6b4b c059 0d71 0000 0000 0000 0000

00e8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

00f0: 0000 0000 2870 036a aa28 8ea6 9861 da55

00f8: 021c 0007 b0ff 01b5 002d 0000 ff70 14ff

==============================================

ath_info -g 3:0 -w 0x0f0100000 0x0085 0x0280

==============================================

ath_info -g 3:0 -w 0x0f0100000 0x0008 0x106b

ath_info -g 3:0 -w 0x0f0100000 0x008a 0x106b

==============================================

ath_info -g 3:0 -w 0x0f0100000 0x0007 0x004e

ath_info -g 3:0 -w 0x0f0100000 0x008b 0x004e

==============================================

 

AirPortAtheros21.kext

================

<dict>

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

<string>English</string>

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

<string>AirPortAtheros21</string>

<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>

<string>4.2.0, Copyright © 2006–2009 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.</string>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros21</string>

<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

<string>6.0</string>

<key>CFBundleName</key>

<string>AirPortAtheros21</string>

<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

<string>KEXT</string>

<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>

<string>4.2.0</string>

<key>CFBundleSignature</key>

<string>????</string>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>420.8.7</string>

<key>IOKitPersonalities</key>

<dict>

<key>Atheros Wireless LAN PCI</key>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros21</string>

<key>IOClass</key>

<string>AirPort_AthrFusion21</string>

<key>IOMatchCategory</key>

<string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string>

<key>IONameMatch</key>

<array>

<string>pci168c,1c</string>

</array>

<key>IOProviderClass</key>

<string>IOPCIDevice</string>

</dict>

</dict>

<key>OSBundleLibraries</key>

<dict>

<key>com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family</key>

<string>300.0</string>

<key>com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily</key>

<string>1.8</string>

<key>com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily</key>

<string>2.0</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.bsd</key>

<string>10.0.0b1</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.iokit</key>

<string>10.0.0b1</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.libkern</key>

<string>10.0.0b1</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.mach</key>

<string>10.0.0b1</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.unsupported</key>

<string>10.0.0b1</string>

</dict>

</dict>

</plist>

 

==================================

Run Kext Utility to Repair kexts permissions

==================================

-- Kext Utility --

- "Snow Leopard" ready -

- kext Installer -

- Repairer kexts permissions -

- Packer/UnPacker mkext files for MAC OS X. -

v2.3.2 © cVad 2009.

www.applelife.ru

www.torrentmac.ru

Detected ... MAC OS X "Snow Leopard".

Task: Full service for "/System/Library/Extensions/"

and "/Extra/Extensions" folders.

Repair Permissions for "/System/Library/Extensions" ... Done.

Remove kexts caches ... Done.

Preventive removal sleepimage file ... Done.

Waiting system rebuild "Snow Leo" "Extensions.mkext" ... Done

=============================================

 

It's working perfectly on my Fujisu M2010

PS: Re-booted into OSX, both Leopard 10.5.8 and Snow Leopard 10.6.2

will give you Kernel Panic with airport brcm43xx

You need to move AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext out of the folder IO80211Family.kext

 

Run Kext Utility to Repair kexts permissions

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System\Library\Extensions\IO80211Family.kext\Contents\PlugIns

 

AirPortAtheros21.kext

AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext

 

System\Library\Extensions\IO80211Family.kext\Contents\PlugIns\AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext\Contents

========================================================================

<key>Broadcom 802.11 PCI</key>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx</string>

<key>IOClass</key>

<string>AirPort_Brcm43xx</string>

<key>IOMatchCategory</key>

<string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string>

<key>IONameMatch</key>

<array>

<string>pci14e4,4311</string>

<string>pci14e4,4312</string>

<string>pci14e4,4313</string>

<string>pci14e4,4318</string>

<string>pci14e4,4319</string>

<string>pci14e4,431a</string>

<string>pci14e4,4320</string>

<string>pci14e4,4324</string>

<string>pci14e4,4325</string>

<string>pci14e4,4328</string>

<string>pci14e4,432b</string>

<string>pci14e4,432c</string>

<string>pci14e4,432d</string>

</array>

<key>IOProviderClass</key>

<string>IOPCIDevice</string>

<key>TruePowerOff</key>

<true/>

</dict>

==============================================

Move AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext from Windows 7 by using OSX Mac Drive software

It will fix Kernel Panic from airport brcm43xx

 

Run Kext Utility to Repair kexts permissions

[BESTRAFER]

....Now scroll down to until you see the EEPROM dump. Copy-Paste it somewhere, so you can restore it easily if you mess up.....

sorry... anybody can give advice how to recover an initial eeprom after brick?

i have only initial EEPROM dump in text file... is it possible? thanks...

 

 

---------------------------------

Wow! I understood - a card is recovered!! That was very simple!

[panzhc]

How to modify the Windows 7's driver，It works in Ubuntu now

[kizwan]

Hi guys,

 

This is good guide. I think a lot of people brick their card because they failed to properly understand the process. First of all, this is not for rebranding the atheros card to broadcom. Secondly, the only value you need to change are; class ID, sub-vendor ID & sub-device ID. The most important to understand is the offset can be different between different card, even between the same card but different revision #. So, it is important to "read" the EEPROM dump file carefully.

 

These are the values you need to change to:-

class ID=280 (Network Controller)

sub-vendor ID=106b (Apple Computer)

sub-device/sub-product ID (depend on the card supported protocols - it is best to refer it to the chipset specification documentation):-

• 0086 for a/b/g cards
  
• 004e for b/g cards
  

If you got KP with broadcom kext, recheck the changes you made or try to "quarantine" the broadcom kext by moving it to another place, outside /System/Library/Extensions/ folder.

 

I which best of luck to people trying this & I hope more success report after this.

[LatinMcG]

instaling ath_info fails due to dns .

try this

svn co http://svn.madwifi-project.org/ath_info/trunk ath_info

 

and Docs at http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/AthInfo

 

Edit: i rebranded and so far i have issues with the 106b,4e entry in broadcom4311 kext. so i rebranded to 016b,86 and it almost worked. i believe im closer. but i have a G card only? i read on dump yet on sites say b/g hmm madwifi dump error ? Ar5bxb63H (Hp not in an hp laptop)

 

will try other ids.. like 168c,23 106b,86 or 168c,24 106b,87 (i have this AR5bxb72 apple that wont work)

 

i order Ar9280 model AW-NE772 that supposedly works native although i think i have PCi config issues in dsdt.

[cartri]

The 106b 0087 combination is used by ar-5418/Atheros-5008 , madwifi has been discontinued in prior to ath5k and the wifi-N ath9K, Linus wants both integrated in a mac80211 single project.

the result?

ATH_INFO no longer works.

i will try to start a project on porting ath_info to 5008 (wifiN, now back to full recognizon in 64bit mac os x 10.6.5) based on 9k eeprom source.

I hope i dont loose mi DWA-556 on this: here it costs 150 dollars :S

[Methanoid]

Hi, hope this is the right place to ask but I have an AR5BXB63 (AR5001/AR5006 depending on where you look). I installed this to my netbook as it is the only card that works with AROS (Amiga-like OS) but I'd like to use OSX also.

 

I suspect if I do this procedure to convince OSX it is an Apple card it will cease to work in AROS so is there any other way to get the card working in OSX without writing to Eeproms?

 

If not and I do have to hack it to appear an Apple card, will it still work in Windows and Linux (I quad boot) ???

[Godfrd824]

I'm having an issue:

 

When I try to get the EEPROM data, I get this:

 

santana@santana-Aspire-5570Z:~/ath_info$ ath_info -d 0x<44400000>

bash: syntax error near unexpected token `44400000'

 

I cannot figure out what the issue is, could anyone help me?

[cartri]

use 0xMEMADDRESS instead of 0x<MEMADDRESS>

[Godfrd824]

use 0xMEMADDRESS instead of 0x<MEMADDRESS>

 

It still doesn't work, now it tells me that the command is not found.

 

santana@santana-Aspire-5570Z:~$ ath_info -d 0x44400000

ath_info: command not found

[cartri]

It still doesn't work, now it tells me that the command is not found.

 

santana@santana-Aspire-5570Z:~$ ath_info -d 0x44400000

ath_info: command not found

 

be sure your ethernet is down:

ifdown -a

 

enter the directory you did build (Make, make all...) ath_info

 

then:

./ath_info -d 0x44400000

(assuming you really know that this is the memory address of your card)

 

DO NOT use ath_info before fully understanding what you are doing. It is not a normal firmware flash!

[Godfrd824]

be sure your ethernet is down:

ifdown -a

 

enter the directory you did build (Make, make all...) ath_info

 

then:

./ath_info -d 0x44400000

(assuming you really know that this is the memory address of your card)

 

DO NOT use ath_info before fully understanding what you are doing. It is not a normal firmware flash!

 

 

Thanks for the help, it worked this time, here's what I get.

 

-==Device Information==-

MAC Revision: 2425 (0xe2)

Warning: Invalid EEPROM Magic number!

Device type: 3

 

/============== EEPROM Information =============\

| EEPROM Version: 5.3 | EEPROM Size: 4 kbit |

| EEMAP: 2 | Reg. Domain: 0x65 |

|================= Capabilities ================|

| 802.11a Support: no | Turbo-A disabled: yes |

| 802.11b Support: no | Turbo-G disabled: yes |

| 802.11g Support: yes | 2GHz XR disabled: yes |

| RFKill Support: yes | 5GHz XR disabled: yes |

| 32kHz Crystal: no | |

\===============================================/

 

According to this, this card only supports wireless G.

 

Now I get this:

 

root@santana-Aspire-5570Z:/home/santana/ath_info# ath_info -g 3:0 -w 0x44400000 0085 280

ath_info: command not found

And I have no idea why,

[cartri]

Thanks for the help, it worked this time, here's what I get.

 

-==Device Information==-

MAC Revision: 2425 (0xe2)

Warning: Invalid EEPROM Magic number!

Device type: 3

 

/============== EEPROM Information =============\

| EEPROM Version: 5.3 | EEPROM Size: 4 kbit |

| EEMAP: 2 | Reg. Domain: 0x65 |

|================= Capabilities ================|

| 802.11a Support: no | Turbo-A disabled: yes |

| 802.11b Support: no | Turbo-G disabled: yes |

| 802.11g Support: yes | 2GHz XR disabled: yes |

| RFKill Support: yes | 5GHz XR disabled: yes |

| 32kHz Crystal: no | |

\===============================================/

 

According to this, this card only supports wireless G.

 

Now I get this:

 

root@santana-Aspire-5570Z:/home/santana/ath_info# ath_info -g 3:0 -w 0x44400000 0085 280

ath_info: command not found

And I have no idea why,

is your class id at hex 85?

you will always get command not found if you tri to run

executable

instead of

./executable

from within the executable path

[Godfrd824]

After writing, nothing changed, I still get this.

 

Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)

Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. AR5BXB63 802.11bg NIC [1468:0428]

Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17

Region 0: Memory at 44400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

 

 

If I try to rewrite, I get this.

 

pair 0: skipped, value already there

restoring GPIO CR 1 -> 9

 

 

And I've checked the dump, it is correct.

 

Class ID - 0085

 

Subven ID - 0008, 008a

 

Subdev ID - 0007, 008b

 

 

EEPROM dump (512 bytes)

==============================================

0000: a55a 0000 0040 0001 0000 5001 0000 004e

0008: 106b 1c0a 0100 0000 01c2 0002 c606 0001

0010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0018: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 5b86 7e84 0019

0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0028: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0038: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

0040: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0048: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0050: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0058: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0060: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0068: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0070: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0078: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

0080: 1400 168c 001c 1402 0001 0280 140a 5001

0088: 0000 140b 106b 004e 140f 0100 1c0a 1410

0090: 5001 01c2 15c3 3f01 0f00 1419 0cc0 0504

0098: 1410 5001 c1c2 1005 0000 0000 101e 0001

00a0: 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff 1900 847e 865b

00a8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00b0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff

00b8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff 0065

00c0: 99e8 5003 da6c 0000 b1c8 016e 00ff 78ff

00c8: 15a3 0005 0400 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

00d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 2d2c 0000 0000 0000

00d8: 0000 e028 a492 1c00 000e b8ca 0013 0000

00e0: 08f8 6b4b c059 0971 0000 0000 0000 0000

00e8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

00f0: 0000 0000 2d2c 0000 0000 0000 0000 e022

00f8: 1c00 000e b8ff 0013 001b 0000 ff70 10ff

==============================================

 

Should I change the device ID as well?