Bug 116632

Summary: ath_pci doesn't work for WLAN
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Stephan Gromer <stephan.gromer>
Component: KernelAssignee: Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None Keywords: Code
Version: RC 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: SUSE Other   
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Description Stephan Gromer 2005-09-12 21:20:11 UTC
I am using OpenSuSE 10 RC1 (kernel 2.6.13-8-default) on my Laptop. I am trying 
to connect to the network via WLAN (PCMCIA).  
I am using   
$lspci -v  
[...]  
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC  
(rev 01)  
        Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4b00  
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3  
        Memory at 22000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]  
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2  
 
The PCMCIA card is detected by the system but when the module ath_pci is  
loaded this does not work.  
 
$dmesg  
ath_rate_sample: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.  
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  
  
This should be resolved, particularly as this is not evident to the normal  
user as the card seems to be detected at first sight.  
 
Thank you
Comment 1 Olaf Kirch 2005-09-13 05:51:10 UTC
All PCI devices get "detected" this way, simply because the bus allows
to enumerate all devices.

The atheros driver itself is part of the kernel-nongpl package,
which is available for download separately