Thank you ericw, next time I get access to the laptop (in about a week) I will check firmware file for corruption.
ericw wrote: > Hi, > This is just a guess, but according to this mailing list post: > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0903.0/00005.html > the firmware files downloaded from gitweb are getting corrupted due to a bug > in gitweb. > > "The correct agere_sta_fw.bin is 65046 bytes long. The corrupted > agere_sta_fw.bin is 89729 bytes long. > There is a way to recode the original binary with GNU recode: recode > utf8..iso8859-1 agere_sta_fw.bin" > > I tried downloading that firmware, fixing it with recode, and placing it > in /lib/firmware on my jaunty alpha 5 installation with a lucent/orinoco > silver card. It seems to have worked - dmesg now reports that the card > can do WPA, but I haven't had a chance to test the WPA yet. > > On another note, if this works, it would be nice if there was an ubuntu > package with it. It takes some hunting to figure out that you have to > download the firmware yourself :) > -- Kernel oops loading Agere firmware (orinoco module) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
