On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:13:23 Lonni J Friedman wrote: > I just purchased an Acer TravelMate 2480 notebook, after researching > it and reading many reports that it works well in Linux. That seems > to be true, up until I attempt to do anything with the built-in > wireless device. > > Its got an Atheros chipset based device, which identifies itself in lspci > as: > > Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g > Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) 168c:001c > > I've installed Fedora 8-x86, with all updates, and then installed > madwifi-0.9.4 from the ATrpms yum repo. I blacklisted the ath5k > driver in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Unfortunately, all attempts to > configure the ath0 interface are failing. In dmesg I'm seeing: > > ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. > ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, > RF2413, RF5413, RF2133) > ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.4) > PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64 > MadWifi: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' > (HAL status 13) > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:00.0 disabled > > To say the least, that isn't promising. > > I attempted to fall back to using the ath5k driver (after > unblacklisting it), but that one isn't working either. It detects the > device ok, but any attempts to bring up an interface fail. I've got > several other systems on the same wireless network that aren't having > any issues, so I'm fairly confident its not the network. > > Note, all of the above is before even attempting to use any form of > encryption. I want to get the thing functional to the point that I > can ping other systems, and then I'll add in encryption. > > Anyone have any success stories or suggestions? thanks Check back a couple days on the list there is another thread, same issue.
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