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SpartanStevo

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Registered: 2011-05-19

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[SOLVED] Ath5k freezes when modprobed

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)

Theoden

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Re: [SOLVED] Ath5k freezes when modprobed

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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SpartanStevo

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Registered: 2011-05-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Ath5k freezes when modprobed

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?

ConnorBehan

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Re: [SOLVED] Ath5k freezes when modprobed

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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SpartanStevo

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Re: [SOLVED] Ath5k freezes when modprobed

Yep, definitely don't understand some of this stuff.  I removed madwifi, works great!  Thanks.  I'm surprised it worked for so long.