Persuading an Atheros wireless card to function in Lenny
I am trying to set up the wireless card in Lenny on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. Linpus has no problems, but the sooner I can wipe it off the hard drive the happier I shall be. :-( I have wicd 1.6.2.2 (bzr -r463) installed. I have installed the Atheros 5 driver module and now get the following results from lshw and modprobe -l: Cronos:/home/lisi# lshw | grep ath configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k_pci latency=0 module=ath5k multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 Cronos:/home/lisi# modprobe -l | grep ath /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/md/multipath.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/md/dm-multipath.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/net/ath_rate_onoe.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/net/ath_rate_sample.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/net/ath_rate_minstrel.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/net/ath_hal.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/net/ath_pci.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/net/ath_rate_amrr.ko Cronos:/home/lisi# But wireless still does not work. I.e., I cannot get on the internet without a wired connection, and wicd reports: No wireless networks found. I am at a loss where to go next. :-( Googling, and a pointer from a friend to the relevant page on the Debian Wiki, got me this far, but are of no further assistance. Any suggestions? I really want to wipe that horrible* Linpus and rely on Debian. Thanks, Lisi * horrible is a subjective description and is not intended as an objective one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002200947.46249.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Persuading an Atheros wireless card to function in Lenny
On Sat,20.Feb.10, 09:47:46, Lisi wrote: I am trying to set up the wireless card in Lenny on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. Linpus has no problems, but the sooner I can wipe it off the hard drive the happier I shall be. :-( I have wicd 1.6.2.2 (bzr -r463) installed. I have installed the Atheros 5 driver module and now get the following results from lshw and modprobe -l: I'd suggest installing linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686 and wicd from backports. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Persuading an Atheros wireless card to function in Lenny
On Saturday 20 February 2010 11:49:03 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,20.Feb.10, 09:47:46, Lisi wrote: I am trying to set up the wireless card in Lenny on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. Linpus has no problems, but the sooner I can wipe it off the hard drive the happier I shall be. :-( I have wicd 1.6.2.2 (bzr -r463) installed. I have installed the Atheros 5 driver module and now get the following results from lshw and modprobe -l: I'd suggest installing linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686 and wicd from backports. Regards, Andrei Thanks for the suggestions, Andrei. I have already installed wicd from backports. I'll look into installing that kernel. (A quick google shows some missing dependencies, so I obviously need a more extensive google.) Would I perhaps do better to upgrade to Squeeze? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002201219.06514.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Persuading an Atheros wireless card to function in Lenny
Hi Lisi On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 09:47AM +, Lisi wrote: I am trying to set up the wireless card in Lenny on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. Linpus has no problems, but the sooner I can wipe it off the hard drive the happier I shall be. :-( I have wicd 1.6.2.2 (bzr -r463) installed. I have installed the Atheros 5 driver module and now get the following results from lshw and modprobe -l: I have an Atheros card on my laptop as well and am running it with madwifi as the ath5k*-modules weren't able to do the job for me so far. But madwifi-(modules|tools) (think that's in the non-free repository) with (custom-built) kernel 2.6.26 and wicd 1.6.2.2 (from the backports) works fine for me. I still have issues with the connection being lost every now and then but I'm fairly confident that's a problem caused by my router since everyone sharing this wireless-access-point has the same problem. My card is the following: a...@herbx:~$ lspci | grep -i ath 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 04) I'd suggest if you have that card (or something similar), go with madwifi (although some people reported that they got same type of card working with the ath5*-modules on newer (=2.6.30) kernels without any hassle. Hope that helps... Cheerio Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100220125909.ga2...@herbx.tri
Thanks, guys \o/ \o/ was: Re: Persuading an Atheros wireless card to function in Lenny
I started down the madwifi route, but hit problems: including, but not limited to, an initial c. I know that i means installed, and I think I know that v is virtual, but c I don't know. I tried installing anyway, but of course couldn't. So I shelved that pro tem and installed the kernel that Andrei suggested - and I have a wireless connection. I'm very grateful to you both and am restraining myself from turning cartwheels* round the garden. :-)) Lisi * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartwheel_(gymnastics) The expression indicates exhuberant delight. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002201431.25881.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Thanks, guys \o/ \o/ was: Re: Persuading an Atheros wireless card to function in Lenny
On Saturday 20 February 2010 14:31:25 Lisi wrote: exhuberant Ouch! Typing is _not_ my strongpoint. :-( s/exhuberant/exuberant Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002201448.29133.lisi.re...@gmail.com
