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Post subject: Need help: No Atheros Wifi after installing new kernel
 Posted: Oct 22, 2007 - 11:09 PM
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Hello,
today I installed the latest kernel with smxi. After reboot, I had to login in console because kdm did not start - I assume this is because I have to reinstall nvidia driver.
Then I restarted smxi which says it has no internet connection. Installing the madwifi driver was not successful, because the script did not find the sources. So I downloaded them from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/madwifi-source and http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/madwifi-tools and http://packages.debian.org/unstable/dev ... assistant. Afterwards I did su
dpkg -i madwifi-* module-assistant*
cd /usr
m-a prepare
The last step wasn't successful because of apt-get problems. I needed the latest libncurses which I downloaded and installed manually.
Then "m-a prepare" was ok and "m-a a-i madwifi" installed the madwifi driver. All seems to be fine.
But - the Atheros wifi PCI card is not being detected at all.
Output of lspci:
05:07.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Output of modprobe ath_pci:
kobject_add failed for ath_pci with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/...); No such device
Output of iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
Output of ifconfig:
lo Protokoll: Lokale Schleife
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While booting the new kernel, I get the following errors:
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... ath_pci 0000:05:07.0: can't get channels
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Configuring network interfaces... Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06): SET failes on device ath0; No such device.
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(Further errors)
Can anyone help? I don't know how to proceed now... |
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Posted: Oct 23, 2007 - 09:50 PM
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dmesg | grep ath sagt folgendes:
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ath_pci 0000:05:07.0: can't get channels
ath_pci: probe of 0000:05:07.0 failed with error -22
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.2)
kobject_add failed for ath_pci with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
[<f8850035>] init_ath_pci+0x35/0x57 [ath_pci]
ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
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Posted: Oct 24, 2007 - 08:39 AM
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Joined: Dec 01, 2006
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Location: Munich
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hallo CyrusQ,
mach bitte mal folgendes:
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apt-get update && apt-get install -f
Hat/macht apt noch probleme?
dann
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dpkg -l | grep madwifi-modules
alle oben gelisteten modulversionen enfernst du mit:
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apt-get remove --purge madwifi-modules-*
nun löschst du alle modulteile die eventuell durch des remove eben nicht gelöscht wurden manuell:
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find /lib/modules/ -name ath* | grep -v ath5k
nun schaust du ob du die aktuellste madwifi-source version hast und installierst diese gegebenenfalls:
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apt-get update && apt-get install madwifi-source
nun baust du das modul neu:
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m-a prepare
m-a a-i madwifi-source
eventuelle fehlermeldungen bitte hierher 
ansonsten hat libra (glaube ich) dieselbe karte und dort funktioniert sie 1a mit aktuellem kernel.
Viel erfolg,
hathe |
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Posted: Oct 24, 2007 - 08:42 AM
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Oops, sorry, didn't read it was the english part of the forum :-/
I hope code boxes explain what i want him to do, otherwise cry and i will translate it to EN!
Greetings
hathe |
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Posted: Oct 24, 2007 - 10:38 AM
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Thanks a lot for your informations. Nevertheless, I already solved the problem:
I just removed the new kernel, then did a dist-upgrade and installed the new kernel afterwards. All things went fine  |
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