My netbook died last fortnight, and the replacement I bought is a ThinkPad Z60t. All seems to work fine with a fresh Debian install (of stable upgraded immediately to testing), but the wifi card.
I installed the packages firmware-linux and firmware-atheros, and am using wicd; I've told wicd to use wlan0 as the wireless interface; and there are no errors from dmesg about the wireless card, even after trying to scan for networks with wicd. When I "refresh" in the wicd GUI, it flashes to the "Scanning..." for a split second and then goes back to the "No wireless networks found" message, so it seems to be unable to use the device properly. The kernel recognises the device properly, judging by the output of lspci and iwconfig. The really baffling thing is that this device is supposed to be supported by the ath5k module, according to at least the Debian wiki: <https://wiki.debian.org/ath5k> 13:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter (AR5BXB6) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Memory at a7f00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ath5k wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:on Can anyone help? I'm stumped. Kernel version is Debian stock kernel 3.2.0. Regards, Aidan _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
