Hello, I have a laptop (Toshiba Satellite P10-792) which had wireless as an option, and hence it does not have a switch for wireless. I had installed a mini pci atheros card (dmesg follows). With older kernels that support was provided by ath_pci, the wireless card was functioning fine using rfkill=0 (or 1, I forgot...) at module load time.
The card can not be used so far with ath5k because it can not be hardware unblocked: [root@diotimos ~]# rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes [root@diotimos ~]# rfkill unblock 0 [root@diotimos ~]# rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes [root@diotimos ~]# This is not a new problem. In the past I could still compile ath_pci and use my card. With the latest kernels I can not compile this module, so I am stuck. Thanks for any help, Antonis. System: Toshiba P10 Distro: Mageia 1 kernel: 2.6.38 # dmesg | grep ath ath5k 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ath5k 0000:02:02.0: registered as 'phy0' ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0 ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a ath: Country alpha2 being used: US ath: Regpair used: 0x3a ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5213A chip found (MAC: 0x59, PHY: 0x43) ath5k phy0: RF5112B multiband radio found (0x36) ath5k 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A disabled lspci output: 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
