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So I've been running arch for almost a year now and have not had many issues I couldn't solve by looking through the forums. This one puzzles me.
I have been using wicd as my network manager.
Everything worked until I recently upgraded to the newest kernel.
The only interface that shows on ifconfig -a is lo (no eth0, ath0, etc)
eth0 disappeared a while ago, but I have been connecting via LAN and wireless through ath0 since I got my network working.
I believe this is how the ath5k sets up the interfaces.
I did a verbose mode on: modprobe ath5k (after modprobe -r ath5k),
it loaded a few modules fine and then when it got to the ath5k module, it stops doing anything. (the cursor stops blinking and even after waiting a long time and pressing ctrl-c, it doesn't do anything)
wicd shows no networks if that matters.
thoughts?
Last edited by SpartanStevo (2011-06-13 23:50:02)
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wicd seems to have come into difficulty with the latest kernel for me too. Just switch to wifi-radar and things will start working again. Worked for me.
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I will try this later tonight, but I'm curious as to how it will fix it if I have no interfaces?
I guess I don't understand how a network manager works with the modules and how both of those work with interfaces.
Is there a good explanation of this somewhere I could read?
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Hmm ath0? That sounds like madwifi (which causes problems if you try to use it concurrently with ath5k).
This may be a stupid question but were you using ath5k or ath_pci when it was working before? If unsure, I would see if it works after removing madwifi.
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Yep, definitely don't understand some of this stuff. I removed madwifi, works great! Thanks. I'm surprised it worked for so long.
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