#1781: [ath5k] Please add support for AR5418 (details included)
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: ath5k | Version: trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: ath5k AR5418 MacBook
Patch_attached: 0 |
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Okay, I have a Lenovo X60 (Japanese version) with the AR5418, running
Fedora 8, and it doesn't work.
After a moderate amount of pain, I got the wireless running (and sort of
managed with NetworkManager, though it was a little erratic) with madwifi
and Fedora 7, six months or so ago.
Unfortunately, I had a disk crash a couple of weeks ago, and when I
reinstalled, I went with Fedora 8 instead of Fedora 7...and no WLAN.
I even went so far as to mess with the madwifi kernel module sources
trying to convince the driver to recognize my chip and treat the same as
an older one, but no dice. (I probably was missing some spot in the
source where the device identification happens; I tried adding it to
ar_device in if_ath.c, and to ath_pci_id_table[] in if_ath_pci.c, but no
luck.)
This is with
kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8
madwifi-0.9.3.3-1.lvn8
kmod-madwifi-0.9.3.3-15.lvn8
From dmesg:
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.3.3)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.3)
From lspci:
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418
802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
From modprobe.conf:
alias wlan0 ath_pci
[EMAIL PROTECTED] madwifi-0.9.3.3]$ lsmod | grep ath
ath_pci 84384 0
wlan 172740 1 ath_pci
ath_hal 193488 1 ath_pci
dm_multipath 18249 0
dm_mod 46209 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
A little more detail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# lspci -v
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418
802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 0033
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 22
Memory at edf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
Kernel modules: ath5k
...but no lock, never comes up with the device.
Any suggestions? My track record for buying PCMCIA adapters off the shelf
here in Japan having them work out of the box is also terrible, so I'm
reluctant to go fishing in Akihabara without a clear indication of the
chip I'm getting, which is hard to come by...
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/1781#comment:3>
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