From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Jerry Quinn <jlquinn@optonline.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@gmail.com, mickflemm@gmail.com
Subject: Re: ath5k can't connect on 5424
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:28:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080528002814.GF7779@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4838A467.1000700@optonline.net>
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 07:27:35PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote:
> Hi. I just installed compat-wireless 2008-05-24.
>
> The good news is that ath5k now loads into the kernel and can talk to the
> chip. However, beyond that, the device doesn't do anything. During
> modprobe ath5k, I get
>
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
> ath5k_pci 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy1'
> phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
> ath5k phy1: Atheros AR5424 chip found (MAC: 0xa3, PHY: 0x61)
> udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to ath0
>
> The pci id for the chip is 168c:1014 (rev 01). This is an IBM Thinkpad
> T60p, running Debian testing with kernel 2.6.25-2-686, the latest dist
> kernel available.
>
> When I try to bring up the interface I just get a link is not ready message
> in the kernel log with no other info. Also, iwlist ath0 scan gives me no
> results either (I did ifconfig ath0 up beforehand).
>
> Let me know if there's any further diagnosis I can provide to help out.
You might wish to post the results of running the ath_info tool
available from the madwifi project (sorry, I don't have the URL handy).
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-24 23:27 ath5k can't connect on 5424 Jerry Quinn
2008-05-28 0:28 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-05-29 4:57 ` Michael Renzmann
2008-05-29 15:10 ` Jerry Quinn (ibm)
2008-05-29 18:52 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-05-29 19:18 ` Bob Copeland
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