2011/8/3 Antonis Tsolomitis <antonis.tsolomi...@gmail.com>: > > 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) >
Have you tried rfkill unblock all ? -- GPG ID: 0xD21DB2DB As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-) Nick _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
