I recently installed Debian on my new Dell latitude e6500. I tried a 64 bit install to start with, and most things worked well but every 1-2 hours my network would fail.
I have an Orinoco 802.11 b/g pcmcia card and have a WPA secured network. After reading around a bit, I found several posts mentioning that the 64bit kernel and wpa_supplicant had some issues. Instead of trying for the next several weeks to get it working, I decided to reinstall with a 32bit OS using the bigmem kernel. I also liked the idea of having flash and java support so this wasn't just one more reason to go back to 32 bit. I got the 32 bit version of Debian installed and the wireless card worked great(not positive the 1-2 hour issue still isn't valid but find out shortly if it is). I installed the bigmem kernel, rebooted, and ath5k now reports an error. The output of the working vs non working kernel ath5k follows. working 32bit(no bigmem): Aug 2 18:40:00 skynet kernel: [ 26.060943] ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) Aug 2 18:40:00 skynet kernel: [ 26.060943] ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0: registered as 'phy0' Aug 2 18:40:00 skynet kernel: [ 26.165950] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5213A chip found (MAC: 0x59, PHY: 0x43) Aug 2 18:40:00 skynet kernel: [ 26.165950] ath5k phy0: RF2112A 2GHz radio found (0x46) non-working(using bigmem kernel): Aug 2 18:38:42 skynet kernel: [ 12.609417] ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) Aug 2 18:38:42 skynet kernel: [ 12.609417] ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0: registered as 'phy0' Aug 2 18:38:42 skynet kernel: [ 12.912966] ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -110 I have the same kernel versions for both kernels so am very confused by this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
