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JurgyMan

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Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 7

ACPI / ath9k probs

Setting up a new Gateway lt31 netbook...

Couple issues to sort out so far...
- LCD dims to half brightness during bootup.... I think during ACPI setup?
- How can I get synaptics to do a middle click for me? double tap doesnt doit...
- LXDE is pretty sweet! but I dont have a power/logoff button available?!
- Wireless is ath9k but it seems to die during big downloads...
- Also cant load powernow-k8 for cpu scaling... get:
no PSB OR ACPI _PSS OBJECTS
- final gripe:  I cant paste into firefox/shiretoko (whats with that name!?)

I'm running Archlinux 2009.08 with 2.6.31-ARCH kernel
thx for any help provided
JurgyMan

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: ACPI / ath9k probs

Setting up a new Gateway lt31 netbook...
- LXDE is pretty sweet! but I dont have a power/logoff button available?!
- Also cant load powernow-k8 for cpu scaling... get:
no PSB OR ACPI _PSS OBJECTS

I'm running Archlinux 2009.08 with 2.6.31-ARCH kernel
thx for any help provided
JurgyMan

If you click on the main menu of LXDE you should see "Logout" and if you click that, a window opens with additional options, including "Shutdown" and "Logoff". This should power-off or logoff.

With respect to powernow, is acpi working on your machine and do you load the module or daemon?
One additional thing: did you disable acpi in your BIOS?

Last edited by MadTux (2009-10-23 17:04:21)

scio

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From: Buffalo, NY

Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 366

Re: ACPI / ath9k probs

ath9k is quite flaky right now in 2.6.31

namuol

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From: New York, US

Registered: 2010-03-01

Posts: 6

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Re: ACPI / ath9k probs

Hey, I've been tearing my hair out trying to get wifi to work on my gateway LT3103u netbook/laptop/whatever you want to call it.

I have the latest arch kernel for x86_64 (2.6.32-ARCH)
With stock ath9k drivers or with manually-installed compat-wireless drivers I can't get it to work.

I think the issue stems from this:

# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132

After doing some research I learned that this isn't a very "unknown" error despite its name; unfortunately the workarounds I found were unsuccessful.

Here's some more detailed system info:

# uname -a
Linux europa 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 23 19:43:46 CET 2010 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor L110 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
#
#
# lspci|grep -i atheros
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

How (if at all) have any of you managed to get this to work currently?