#1328: Atheros card not working in opensuse 10.2 Acer Aspire 5570Z
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: madwifi: other | Version: v0.9.3
Resolution: duplicate | Keywords:
Patch_attached: 0 |
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Comment (by anonymous):
Replying to [ticket:1328 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Hello,
>
> I have an Acer Aspire 5570Z notebook running openSuSE 10.2. I have added
madwifi.org/suse/10.2 to my installation sources and installed the
0.9.3-6.1 version.
>
> My lspci shows:
>
> {{{
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device
001c (rev 01)
> }}}
>
> And Kinfocenter shows:
>
> {{{
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device
001c
> (rev 01)
> Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown Device 0428
> Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11
> Memory at 52100000 (64-bit non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
> }}}
>
> I have checked the installation by lsmod | grep ath
>
> {{{
> ath_pci 96544 0
> wlan 197956 1 ath_pci
> ath_hal 195792 1 ath_pci
> }}}
>
> My dmesg | grep ath shows:
>
> {{{
> ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
RF5413)
> ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3)
> }}}
>
> And dmesg | grep wifi:
>
> {{{
> wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported'
(HAL status 13)
> wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected'
(HAL status 3)
> }}}
>
> The last two to go:
>
> ifconfig:
>
> {{{
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:F9:2F:F5
> inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::216:36ff:fef9:2ff5/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:684 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:766 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:454272 (443.6 Kb) TX bytes:112995 (110.3 Kb)
> Interrupt:169
>
> 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:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:1956 (1.9 Kb) TX bytes:1956 (1.9 Kb)
> }}}
>
> iwconfig::
>
> {{{
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
> }}}
>
> iwpriv
>
> {{{
> lo no private ioctls.
>
> eth0 no private ioctls.
>
> sit0 no private ioctls.
> }}}
>
> I have also tried -despite it is told "unnecessary"
>
> {{{
> wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
> }}}
>
> But it returned an error that
>
> {{{
> wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
> }}}
>
>
> Meantime, YaST sees this card in Network Cards as AMBIT Microsystem WLAN
Controller and offers me configuration options. However, in
KNetworkManager there is no clue about wireless driver.
>
> I know I am close, there is some small thing that I should do to end
this pain, but I need a small bump. Can you point me to the right
direction?
>
>
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