Bug 103879

Summary:	atheros driver broken
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	pgraziano
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Andreas Jaeger 2005-08-10 16:35:34 UTC

The atheros driver has some severe problems:
* after some time, it will not accept packages from externally unless I start 
  a network connection from my laptop (ssh to laptop fails;ping from laptop
works;ssh to laptop works again)

* it seems that after a suspend to RAM the wireless driver is not working correctly.

Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2005-08-10 19:57:23 UTC

I guess it has nothing to do with suspend to RAM, try ifdown/ifup for several
times and check whether the interface gets an ip address via dhcp every time. 
It failed for me the third time.

Comment 2 Paul Graziano 2005-08-18 07:20:41 UTC

Additional info - dmesg reports missing symbols,
ath_rate_sample: no version for "ether_sprintf" found: kernel tainted.
ath_rate_sample: Unknown symbol ath_hal_computetxtime
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_tx_complete
ath_pci: Unknown symbol _ath_hal_attach
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_attach
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_newassoc
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_computetxtime
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_dynamic_sysctl_register
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_mhz2ieee
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_detach
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_probe
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_node_cleanup
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_detach
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_node_init
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_findrate
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_init_channels
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_newstate
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_rate_setupxtxdesc
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_getwirelessmodes

Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2005-08-18 07:29:27 UTC

Comment 1: Does it occur with Beta2 as well? 
 
Comment 2: Please install kernel-default-nongpl 
(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/).

Comment 4 Andreas Jaeger 2005-08-22 18:34:06 UTC

Fixed for me with beta2.

Comment 5 Paul Graziano 2005-09-13 15:26:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Fixed for me with beta2.

This reappeared in beta3, and not resolved in any subsequent betas or RC1
The symptoms are the same as above with dmesg output.
The defaul-kernel nongpl depends on an earlier kernel versoin.
If someone has succesfully got this working with the atheros client - let me know.
ath_pci is the module name.  The dmesg outpu happens as soon as yast - network
config is run.

Comment 6 Joachim Gleissner 2005-09-13 15:36:01 UTC

You need to download and install the kernel-default-nongpl package matching   
your kernel version. If you run RC1, you have to install the one from   
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-RC1-Extra/... to get the card 
running.

Comment 7 Paul Graziano 2005-09-13 15:52:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> You need to download and install the kernel-default-nongpl package matching   
> your kernel version. If you run RC1, you have to install the one from   
> ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-RC1-Extra/... to get the card 
> running. 
Theres only "one" in there - and its the
http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-RC1-Extra/kernel-modules+firmware/suse/i586/kernel-default-nongpl-2.6.13-8.i586.rpm
-please forgive me if I am missing something.