Hello, Recently I changed the laptop, and there's something wrong with the new Wifi adapter, which is an Atheros AR9485. Now, when I do modprobe ath9k, a message like this is registered in dmesg: ath9k: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -5 The OS installed in that machine is a Slackware 13.37 with the stock kernel. I've tried, following some google research, using the compatibility backport kit. I've downloaded some versions, but now I stick with compat-wireless-3.5.3-2-sn in order to eliminate variables. After some turns, I've put some printk() in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c, and my final conclusion is that the time is running out in the routine ath_hw_wait() when waiting for the register 0x7044 have some value, like showed by one message raised by one of the printk() inserted in the code: ath9k_hw_wait(): ret=0(timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7044: 0xffffffff & 0x0000000f != 0x00000002) That is, the register has 0xffffffff, that when masked with 0x0f leads to 0x0f, which is not the expected value 0x02. There's also one key combination (Fn-F12), which seems to enable/disable the wifi adapter, but it seems not to change anything. (I think I would not mention that with Windows everything works, but this may be a concern in a first level of analysis. Please don't flame...). Please could someone give me some hint? Thanks, Luiz Ramos São Paulo - Brazil lramos dot prof at yahoo dot com dot br -- 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
