Bugzilla – Bug 382578
Atheros wireless chipsets unusable
Last modified: 2008-05-09 08:04:09 UTC
Under 10.3 all i had to do to enable wireless on my macbook was install madwifi. Under 11.0 i can't enable wireless. I've installed madwifi, but wireless didn't enable automatically. Trying to configure the network through YaST gives me this message: Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See dmesg output for details. Grepping dmesg for 'ath' gives this: ath5k_pci 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0' ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -5 ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath_pci: 0.9.4 I've tried svn head of madwifi as well as the latest official release, 0.9.4.
You should not need madwifi anymore since the in-kernel ath5k is going to replace madwifi. Could you please try that one and uninstall all madwifi-stuff?
Well, the wireless didn't work out of box which is why i assumed madwifi was still required. Is the ath5k stuff supposed to be installed by default? If so, it didn't work. If i need to install it manually, i'll do it when i get home.
The ath5k-module is part of the default-kernel and should be already installed on your system. Could you please verify if the ath5k-module gets loaded on boot (if no madwifi is installed of course) and attach the output of dmesg.
Created attachment 210635 [details] dmesg log Here's the output of dmesg after freshly booting up my laptop with madwifi removed. Still no wireless.
Hi, I also have this bug and only get it working if I install ndiswrapper (I don't like it but at least it works...) When the card is "using" ath5k in YaST says the message Alan write above and the card is not editable nor removeable... regards
It might be worth documenting this workaround: 1) Blacklist ath5k so it isn't autoloaded 2) Install madwifi 3) Wireless works I think the card itself may still be unsupported by ath5k, at least that's what i gathered when i was trying to resolve the issue.
Reading others bugs related to ath5k driver (384206 and 373098) still doesn't support correctly some Atheros models, that should be supported in kernel 2.6.26-rc1 Let's see what Jiri says...
I can't crystal gaze. Please attach lspci -vvxxx.
Created attachment 213770 [details] lspci -vvxxx log Jiri, Attached is the result of the command, only the atheros related part... regards
Ah, yes, that's the same card as in bug 373098. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 373098 ***