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Hello and thank you for reading this.
I'm using Arch Linux on an A22m Thinkpad with a WG511T Atheros chipset wireless PCMCIA card.
I installed Arch from a disk that had .2x kernel and everything worked fine. The device showed up as ath0 and operated beautifully. However, after doing pacman -Syu the upgrade loads the latest kernel, or .30 and now it shows up as wlan0.
That wouldn't be a problem except it fails to connect most of my attempts.
lspci | grep Atheros
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications INnc. Atheros AR5001x+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)modprobe -c | grep ath_pci
alias pci:v0000168Cd00009013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*ath_pci
alias pci:v0000168Cd00009024sv*sd*bc*sc*i*ath_pci
alias pci:v0000168Cd00009023sv*sd*bc*sc*i*ath_pci
alias pci:v0000168Cd0000901Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*ath_pci
alias pci:v0000168Cd0000901Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*ath_pci
...onward for about 15 more linesmodprobe -c | grep ath_hal
alias symbol:ath_hal_init_channels ath_hal
...a number of other references to ath_halI've tried rmmod and modprobing each of the atheros modules but it keeps on showing the wlan0 with the same kind of intermittent connectivity. Not sure where to go from here, so any input would be much appreciated.
Last edited by sharpie (2009-07-28 01:10:47)
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Misfit138 posted a thread about the kernel not properly detecting atheros cards and how to correct the problem once about 6 months ago I think. I've looked and looked but I can't find it. Anyone have a link to that?
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I had a similar problem with atheros recently. See here.
Hope it helps, specifically this part:
ath0 interface is not created until an
# rmmod ath5k
followed by
# rmmod ath_pci
and finally
# modprobe ath_pci
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