New Laptop - New Problems - Help Please!

alexertech · 2008-06-30 17:22:22

Hi everybody.

So, i bought a new shiny ACER ASPIRE 4520, that comes with Windows Vista default, the D2D recovery partition, and i wanna do the dual boot with ARCH.

So i download the new "Overlord" release, start the process, and bang!, WIFI doesnt get detected... After that i was wondering what would happen to the restore system if i overwrite the MBR, so stop the process, reboot, and then... google.

I found a couple of things to get the Atheros chip working, but nothing works, and found no answer for my question about the MBR and the D2D recovery system.

Here is the LSPCI:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0547 (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0548 (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0542 (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0541 (rev a2)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0543 (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0561 (rev a2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0550 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 054c (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0563 (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0563 (rev a2)
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7000M (rev a2) (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
01:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
01:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
01:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
01:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

Atheros Chip:

07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

Thanks in advance for your help.

fwojciec · 2008-06-30 18:01:54

Try blacklisting "ath5k" module and using madwifi driver instead. Ath5k module must be blacklisted in order for madwifi to work.

alexertech · 2008-06-30 18:26:03

How can I blacklist the module in the cd install enviroment ?

fwojciec · 2008-06-30 18:27:53

In the install environment you should be able to just use "rmmod ath5k" to remove it and then "modprobe ath_pci" -- I think...

alexertech · 2008-06-30 18:34:01

I did that and nothing...

fwojciec · 2008-06-30 18:46:53

See post 29 in that thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50766&p=2
If that doesn't work then I've no idea what's wrong.

elliott · 2008-06-30 22:09:25

Try using lspci -nn instead, if you get an output like this, you don't have an ar5006eg, it is a ar5007eg and won't work with the madwifi package in the repository.

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)

You'll either need ndsiwrapper, or a patched madwifi build, like this one:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17392

Arch Linux

#1 2008-06-30 17:22:22

New Laptop - New Problems - Help Please!

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