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Re: ath5k problem with 2.6.35

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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 06:49:12PM -0600, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On August 23, 2010, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:53:41AM -0600, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > On August 22, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > > Hi, I'm running 2.6.35, and my wireless card fails to initialize
> > > > properly
> > > 
> > > > on boot. I get the following messages in dmesg:
> > > Probably important, but I missed a couple lines:
> > > > [    0.866525] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) ->
> > > > IRQ 17 [    0.866536] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> > > > [    0.866571] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> > > > [    1.358241] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x67
> > > > [    1.358242] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair
> > > > map [    1.358245] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
> > > > [    1.358247] ath: Regpair used: 0x67
> > > > 
> > >    [    1.360589] phy0: Failed to initialize wep: -2
> > > > 
> > > > [    1.372021] ath5k phy0: can't register ieee80211 hw
> > > > [    1.372080] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> > > > [    1.372084] ath5k: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -2
> > 
> > Did you enable fips mode?
> 
> I don't even know what that is, so no. At least I didn't do it. if wicd did, 
> then yes.

In any case, wep failed to init for some reason and the prevents
device registration.  You need the patch I referenced earlier.

John
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