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From: Jim Ham <jimham@dslextreme.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Athros wireless stopped working
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:57:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267577848.19553.12.camel@localhost> (raw)

The athros chip in my Fujitsu notebook as stopped working after an
update  (Debian squeeze) about a month ago. It uses the ath5k driver.
uname -a returns Linux WideBook 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10
22:40:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It appears that iwconfig can't set the essid and the password reliably.
When I issue iwconfig ath0 I usually get garbage in the essid and
password fields. This can be after setting both (with iwconfig)
apparently successfully.

This notebook is dual boot so I know that the hardware is working. 

I have put some debug output in the wireless-tools script in if-pre-up.d
so that I can see that the essid and password fields seem to 'take' for
a short time, then revert to garbage.

Does any of this sound familiar? Is this a known problem?

Regards,

Jim Ham



             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-03  0:57 Jim Ham [this message]
2010-03-03  9:38 ` Athros wireless stopped working Holger Schurig
2010-03-03 23:32 ` Bob Copeland
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-09  2:37 Jim Ham
2010-03-10  2:13 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-03-10 15:58   ` Jim Ham
2010-03-10  7:48 ` Gábor Stefanik

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