Meanwhile the moderator accepts (or not) the message with the log file (40K), Iresend the text that accompanies the message ;-) ----------------------------------------
Nope, no dongle, just basic eee 900. Lets put some info here. lsmod gives out all this: Module Size Used by ipv6 235300 8 usbhid 35904 0 hid 33184 1 usbhid ff_memless 4392 1 usbhid wlan_scan_sta 11264 1 ath_rate_sample 11072 1 ath_pci 202552 0 wlan 193776 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci ath_hal 300736 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci i915 25280 2 drm 65256 3 i915 reiserfs 189920 1 pciehp 28540 0 pci_hotplug 23460 1 pciehp joydev 8480 0 usbtouchscreen 8356 0 psmouse 32336 0 serio_raw 4740 0 rng_core 3940 0 pcspkr 2432 0 i2c_i801 7920 0 i2c_core 19828 1 i2c_i801 iTCO_wdt 9508 0 video 16400 0 output 2912 1 video battery 10180 0 ac 4196 0 button 6064 0 eeepc_laptop 7440 0 snd_hda_intel 324248 0 snd_pcm 62628 1 snd_hda_intel atl2 22744 0 snd_seq 41456 0 snd_timer 17800 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 6380 1 snd_seq snd 45604 5 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device intel_agp 22300 1 agpgart 28776 3 drm,intel_agp soundcore 6368 1 snd snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm evdev 8000 7 xfs 458040 2 usb_storage 75936 0 sd_mod 22200 5 ata_piix 14180 3 ata_generic 4676 0 ahci 23176 0 libata 140384 3 ata_piix,ata_generic,ahci scsi_mod 129356 3 usb_storage,sd_mod,libata dock 8272 1 libata ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent] ide_core 96168 1 ide_pci_generic ehci_hcd 28428 0 uhci_hcd 18672 0 usbcore 118160 6 usbhid,usbtouchscreen,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd thermal 15228 0 processor 32576 2 thermal fan 4164 0 thermal_sys 10856 4 video,thermal,processor,fan ----------------------- Tail of syslog Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:22:15:02:46:49 Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus kernel: [ 425.169138] atl2: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex> Oct 29 19:53:46 pegasus kernel: [ 545.293749] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. Oct 29 19:53:46 pegasus kernel: [ 545.296189] AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417) Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.323728] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.323752] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64 Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.815093] MadWifi: ath_attach: Switching rfkill capability off. Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.849588] wifi0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC 14.2, PHY SChip 7.0, Radio 10.2) Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.858058] ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros 5424/2424: mem=0xfbef0000, irq=18 ---------------------------------------------- Ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:af:a7:e0:d6 inet6 addr: fe80::215:afff:fea7:e0d6/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 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) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:15:02:46:49 inet addr:192.168.25.19 Bcast:192.168.25.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::222:15ff:fe02:4649/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1392191 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Memory:fbfc0000-fc000000 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) wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-15-AF-A7-E0-D6-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:280 RX bytes:132 (132.0 B) TX bytes:1426 (1.3 KiB) Interrupt:18 -------------------------------------------------------- iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wifi0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 ------------------------------------------------------------ Result of iwlist ath0 scanning just after modprobing ath_pci ath0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down Same command after ifconfig ath0 up ath0 No scan results ----------------------------------------------------- What about this lines of syslog? Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 15.936179] pciehp: Device 0000:03:00.0 already exists at 3:0, cannot hot-add Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 15.936289] pciehp: Cannot add device 0x3:0 Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 16.940193] Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.1:pcie02 Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 16.940231] pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 2664 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0 Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 17.944184] pciehp: Device 0000:01:00.0 already exists at 1:0, cannot hot-add Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 17.944274] pciehp: Cannot add device 0x1:0 Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 18.948196] Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.2:pcie02 Any ideas? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Federico Castagnini < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Paul Menzel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Federico, > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 14:40 -0200 schrieb Federico Castagnini: > >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Ben Armstrong > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:57:37 +0100 > >> > "Sergio Blanco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I'm using wicd so using the interfaces file is useless for me. Even > if I > >> >> tried, the first problem to solve would be it's inability to scan for > APs. > >> >> If I have the interface up and running it doesn't matter if it knows > where > >> >> to connect, I should be able to search for networks, no? > >> > >> I have made almost the same tests and still have the same problem, can > >> not scan or connect. > >> > >> With a usb dongle (mod rt73) i was able to scan and use that interface > >> as expected, so the trouble is with the atheros wifi device... > >> > >> This problem came up with an upgrade i made last week, that upgrade > >> the kernel (plus other things) from 2.6.26-4? to 2.6.26-8. > >> > >> I think this is something relevant. > > > > You can find out inspecting /var/log/dpkg.log. > > > > […] > > > >> > Let's start with logs. Post /var/log/syslog and we can start there. > > > > Please provide the information, Ben asked for. > > > > finaly, looking into syslog after enabling the wifi, found a line saying > unable to load wlan_scan_sta > > and later google say: > http://madwifi.org/ticket/1737#comment:2 > > now the Atheros wifi is working again. > > Thank you all who help us with this problem. > Federico Castagnini > > Sergio, do you have some dongle like me? > _______________________________________________ > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel >
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