On 26 July 2011 09:19, Vic Demuzere <vic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a really strange issue with my Atheros WiFi card since > re-installing Arch. It doesn't manage to connect to my wireless AP, > except when I first boot windows and then reboot to Arch. So it looks > like Arch doesn't manage to start the card properly. Output from dmesg > is the same in both cases, and the card correctly shows up in lspci. > > [sorcix@morpheus ~]$ dmesg | grep ath > ath9k 0000:01:0b.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 > ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x30 > ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map > ath: Country alpha2 being used: AM > ath: Regpair used: 0x30 > ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control' > Registered led device: ath9k-phy0 > > I tried netcfg, networkmanager and manually using wpa_supplicant. When > I didn't boot windows first, the card seems to connect to the AP, and > then disconnect again. > > wlan0: deauthenticating from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx by local choice (reason=3) > > It then starts looping trying to reconnect. > > After first booting into windows, it simply connects and stays > connected. Everything works fine then. Note that it always works fine > in windows, so it isn't a hardware problem. > > Does anyone else have this problem, or knows how to fix it? > > -- > vic@xxxxxxxxxxx :: http://vic.demuzere.be :: PGP: 0x6690CF94 > My software never contains bugs, it just develops random features. > You could try playing with rfkill a bit.
