On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:03:44 -0600 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/17/2016 05:09 AM, German wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > A couple of days ago I asked why my pc changes the wireless card > > name. It switches between AR9285 ( right) and AR5008 ( wrong). > > Someone suggested that this is because another kernel module is > > loaded by mistake. Well, it is not the case. When system identified > > with AR9285, it loads ath9k and I can connect to the router. When > > system identifies my card as AR5008, no kernel module is present at > > all ( lspci -k). The wrong card name occurs only when system > > rebooted. If I gracefully shut down the system, it always comes up > > with a right name for the card ( AR9285). So, how to force the > > system identify my card right no matter if I reboot or shut down? > > Thank you. > > I would like to help you, but I do not remember your earlier message. > Why did you not reply to the earlier one so that everything would be > in the same thread? That would have made searching the archives > easier. As a result, I may be duplicating some previous information. Sorry Larry, this was my repost of Debian user mailing list. My apologies for the confusion. > > The selection of a driver for a given device comes from the PCI ID. > If your system is showing the wrong device, then you may have > hardware problems such that the PCI ID is reported incorrectly. To > test this, please provide the output of the command > > lspci -nn | grep Network > > for the "good" and "bad" case. > > Larry > > This is the "good" case: lspci -nn | grep Network 01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01) I will reboot now to "bad" case and post the output. Thank you Larry! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
