Bug 382578

Summary:	Atheros wireless chipsets unusable
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Alan McGovern <alan.mcgovern>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Helmut Schaa <hschaa>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	elchevive68, jslaby, pilotgi, r.ems
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Attachments:	dmesg log lspci -vvxxx log

Description Alan McGovern 2008-04-22 23:42:28 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.

Comment 1 Helmut Schaa 2008-04-24 11:19:43 UTC

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?

Comment 2 Alan McGovern 2008-04-24 12:47:01 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Helmut Schaa 2008-04-24 13:03:27 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Alan McGovern 2008-04-26 01:48:52 UTC

Created attachment 210635 [details]
dmesg log

Here's the output of dmesg after freshly booting up my laptop with madwifi removed. Still no wireless.

Comment 5 Luiz Fernando Ranghetti 2008-05-07 23:45:09 UTC

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

Comment 6 Alan McGovern 2008-05-08 00:04:19 UTC

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.

Comment 7 Luiz Fernando Ranghetti 2008-05-08 00:12:34 UTC

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...

Comment 8 Jiri Slaby 2008-05-08 07:59:37 UTC

I can't crystal gaze. Please attach lspci -vvxxx.

Comment 9 Luiz Fernando Ranghetti 2008-05-09 00:07:03 UTC

Created attachment 213770 [details]
lspci -vvxxx log

Jiri,

Attached is the result of the command, only the atheros related part...

regards

Comment 10 Jiri Slaby 2008-05-09 08:04:09 UTC

Ah, yes, that's the same card as in bug 373098.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 373098 ***