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mvinnicius

Member

From: Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

Registered: 2006-02-16

Posts: 86

Atheros AR242x modules

Hello, fellow Archway followers

I've acquired a Toshiba Satellite A215-S5818, and tried to make it work better , using Arch, of course;-).Everything is working fine except mi wireless card. The infamous Aetheros (i've searched this forum and the net) is getting on my nerves.

When I load the ath_pci, i got the MadWifi "revision not supported" error message on dmesg.When I load the ath5k, the message is gone, but I still get no ath0, wlan0 or anything. In dmesg i got a phy0, which doesn't work either.

Please take a look and tell me where am I making mistakes:

1. Here's lspci| grep Atheros

0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

2. In my rc.conf, I commented the ath5k module.

MODULES=(r8169 !ath5k !mac80211 ath_hal ath_pci wlan snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)

3.Here's the result of dmesg:

ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133)
wlan: trunk
ath_pci: trunk
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0e:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:0e:00.0 to 64               
MadWifi: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:0e:00.0 disabled

4.Here's the result of lsmod | grep ath

ath_pci               184364  0
wlan                  238064  1 ath_pci
ath_hal               231136  1 ath_pci

I'm using the stock kernel 2.6.25.

Where is my error?

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Gretschy

Member

From: Bielefeld, Germany

Registered: 2006-06-01

Posts: 21

Re: Atheros AR242x modules

Try this Package from Aur.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17392

it may be the problem described in this madwifi ticket:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679
which is solved with the new hal.

mvinnicius

Member

From: Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

Registered: 2006-02-16

Posts: 86

Re: Atheros AR242x modules

Thank you, Gretschy!!

It worked like an atomic clock...or something like that. I've still have to test it with an access point, but at least now i have an interface to do it.

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