---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jasin Colegrove <j.wholesalesupply@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:24 PM Subject: kernel .30 BROKE ATH5K with my AR5212 atheros. To: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I AM NOT A SUBSCRIBER. Please reply to me directly at this e-mail address j.wholesalesupply@xxxxxxxxx lspci -vvvvvvvvvv 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: Phillips Components Device 8331 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ath5k Kernel modules: ath5k $ lsmod | grep ath ath5k 107192 0 mac80211 158652 1 ath5k led_class 3416 2 thinkpad_acpi,ath5k cfg80211 36524 2 ath5k,mac80211 Once I installed and ran the .30 release on my laptop my internet connection was down. Wicd reported that the ping failed because it did not recieve a response from the access point. So I started checking things out, I have no wpa/wep security. I have no mac filtering. If I try using a static IP to the router, the manual method of ifconfig 192.168.1.4; route add default gw 192.168.1.1 works, but I can not ping anything outside of my localhost. Pinging the gateway fails, pinging other computers on the network fails. If I try dhcp, it timesout waiting for an ip and same thing, no ping outside of localhost, as expected. Then I decided to see if it the card was working, So I tried to iwlist wlan0 scan, it returned the expected results. It see's the multiple AP's in my area. The card seems fine. That got me to thinking, maybe I should downgrade the kernel and see if it works, as soon as i rebooted into .29 kernel release the authentication to the AP went through and i could ping the gw, other networked computers etc. There is clearly a problem with the .30 release of ath5k module using the atheros chipset AR5212. I would be glad to offer up as much information as I can, but I don't have the slightest on how to debug this issue? Any help on that issue is much appreciated. Where can I file the appropriate bug and what information do I need to post from a technical standpoint. I am rather competent with linux and the command line so if i can be of some use researching this bug please let me know what I can do to help I am also using the ath9k module on my desktop pc with an atheros AR5008 and the .30 kernel release and everything works as expected. this problem seems specific to the ath5k module. -- 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
