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| Jarrod McCandless... |
 Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:36 am |
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Ive gotten a good install on my new computer (Compaq f750us) Everything
works except the wireless card. I have configured the kernel and even have
madwifi packages installed but I cant get anything to come up
ifconfig reads:
localhost sgtmcc # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:68:15:39:e8
inet addr:192.168.2.6 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:68ff:fe15:39e8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:1689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2365513 (2.2 MiB) TX bytes:91256 (89.1 KiB)
Interrupt:252 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
iwconfig reads
localhost sgtmcc # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lspci -k reads
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci
So it sees the card and the modules are loaded in lsmod. Anyone have any
clue to get this enabled and working? Ive done searches on Gentoo-wiki and
google and cant seem to find anything that will work for me. |
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| J.O. Aho... |
| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:01 am |
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Jarrod McCandless wrote:
Quote: Ive gotten a good install on my new computer (Compaq f750us) Everything
works except the wireless card. I have configured the kernel and even have
madwifi packages installed but I cant get anything to come up
ifconfig reads:
localhost sgtmcc # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:68:15:39:e8
inet addr:192.168.2.6 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:68ff:fe15:39e8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:1689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2365513 (2.2 MiB) TX bytes:91256 (89.1 KiB)
Interrupt:252 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
iwconfig reads
localhost sgtmcc # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lspci -k reads
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci
So it sees the card and the modules are loaded in lsmod. Anyone have any
clue to get this enabled and working? Ive done searches on Gentoo-wiki and
google and cant seem to find anything that will work for me.
Did you configure the wlan0 (or what you call) in /etc/conf.d/net.
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| Simen Lien... |
| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:04 pm |
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:36:32 -0500, Jarrod McCandless wrote:
Quote: lspci -k reads
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
802.11abg
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
    Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci
So it sees the card and the modules are loaded in lsmod.
Both ath5k and ath_pci loaded at the same time? I don't think you are
supposed to do that.
My laptop seems to have the same chip:
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
At the moment I'm using Ndiswrapper as Ubuntu 8.04 is running kernel
2.6.24 which does not seem to have a working ath5k driver for this chip.
I have also been testing Ubuntu 9.04 beta for a while, where it is
running okay with ath5k. But then I have to blacklist ath_pci.
I have not installed Gentoo on this machine, so I'm not sure about which
revisions it would pull in. But go for a recent kernel, and unload
ath_pci, and it should start working. ( How well it works is another
matter. I have to rate limit it at 24M when using ath5k. It's a known
problem, and they are working on it. )
Simen |
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| AZ Nomad... |
| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:50 am |
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:36:32 -0500, Jarrod McCandless <me at (no spam) here.com> wrote:
Quote: Ive gotten a good install on my new computer (Compaq f750us) Everything
works except the wireless card. I have configured the kernel and even have
madwifi packages installed but I cant get anything to come up
I had basic wireless with the default install for 8.10, but encryption
eluded me even with every recipe out on the net two weeks after 8.10
came out. I dumped it and reverted to 8.04.
Only thing w/ 8.10 that cared about was openoffice 3 and I installed
that manually.
I hated 8.10 -- wifi, power management, and bluetooth all broke. Just
wasn't worth it. I'm a coward. I just didn't see any need to try it
again. |
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| Zhenyao Huang... |
| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 5:58 am |
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| qdii... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:43 am |
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El Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:04:30 -0500, Simen Lien escribió:
Quote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:36:32 -0500, Jarrod McCandless wrote:
lspci -k reads
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
802.11abg
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
    Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci
So it sees the card and the modules are loaded in lsmod.
Both ath5k and ath_pci loaded at the same time? I don't think you are
supposed to do that.
My laptop seems to have the same chip: 07:00.0 Ethernet controller:
Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express
Adapter (rev 01)
At the moment I'm using Ndiswrapper as Ubuntu 8.04 is running kernel
2.6.24 which does not seem to have a working ath5k driver for this chip.
I have also been testing Ubuntu 9.04 beta for a while, where it is
running okay with ath5k. But then I have to blacklist ath_pci.
I have not installed Gentoo on this machine, so I'm not sure about which
revisions it would pull in. But go for a recent kernel, and unload
ath_pci, and it should start working. ( How well it works is another
matter. I have to rate limit it at 24M when using ath5k. It's a known
problem, and they are working on it. )
Simen
Quoting lspci manual pages :
-k Show kernel drivers handling each device and also kernel
modules capable of handling it. Turned on by default when -v is given in
the normal mode of output. (Currently works only on Linux with kernel
2.6 or newer.)
So the modules shown are not necesarily loaded.
Could you post us with the output of :
"ifconfig -a"
"lsmod | grep ath" ?
I think your problem could be solved by just loading the right modules
("modprobe ath5k"). As you are on Ubuntu, I guess they have been built.
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