On 15 May 2012 20:38, Aidan Gauland <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > My Z60t running Linux supports the wifi perfectly. What do you get as a result of this command? ~ $ lsmod | grep ath ath5k 106404 0 ath 10464 1 ath5k mac80211 164776 1 ath5k cfg80211 115264 3 ath5k,ath,mac80211 Anything like the above? I suspect you probably need to load extra modules. -- Sincerely, Christopher Sawtell
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