From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath5k problem with 2.6.35
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:18:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100824151815.GE2535@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008231849.13144.thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 06:49:12PM -0600, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On August 23, 2010, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:53:41AM -0600, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > On August 22, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > > Hi, I'm running 2.6.35, and my wireless card fails to initialize
> > > > properly
> > >
> > > > on boot. I get the following messages in dmesg:
> > > Probably important, but I missed a couple lines:
> > > > [ 0.866525] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) ->
> > > > IRQ 17 [ 0.866536] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> > > > [ 0.866571] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> > > > [ 1.358241] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x67
> > > > [ 1.358242] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair
> > > > map [ 1.358245] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
> > > > [ 1.358247] ath: Regpair used: 0x67
> > > >
> > > [ 1.360589] phy0: Failed to initialize wep: -2
> > > >
> > > > [ 1.372021] ath5k phy0: can't register ieee80211 hw
> > > > [ 1.372080] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> > > > [ 1.372084] ath5k: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -2
> >
> > Did you enable fips mode?
>
> I don't even know what that is, so no. At least I didn't do it. if wicd did,
> then yes.
In any case, wep failed to init for some reason and the prevents
device registration. You need the patch I referenced earlier.
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-24 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-22 6:05 ath5k problem with 2.6.35 Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-08-22 7:53 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-08-23 18:29 ` John W. Linville
2010-08-23 18:31 ` John W. Linville
2010-08-24 0:49 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-08-24 15:18 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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