Bug 13538 - Wifi goes up and down in ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix
Summary: Wifi goes up and down in ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Networking
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Wireless (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 high
Assignee: networking_wireless@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
URL:
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Reported: 2009-06-14 16:13 UTC by Ice Dizzy
Modified: 2009-06-15 20:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Kernel Version: 2.6.28-11-generic
Subsystem:
Regression: No
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Description Ice Dizzy 2009-06-14 16:13:55 UTC
Wired and 3G/HDSPA works like a charm though.

Wifi sucks.

Tried to compile latest stable from madwifi but there are conflicts with the kernel so therefore i'm not capable to fix it my own.
So ath5 ar not on track.

xawl@vardagsrummet:/dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4$ make
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... ok.
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/build SUBDIRS=/dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic'
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath_pci.o
  LD [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/ath_pci.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_hal/ah_os.o
  HOSTCC  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_hal/uudecode
  UUDECODE /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_hal/i386-elf.hal.o
  LD [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_hal/ath_hal.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/amrr/amrr.o
  LD [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/amrr/ath_rate_amrr.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/minstrel/minstrel.o
  LD [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/minstrel/ath_rate_minstrel.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/onoe/onoe.o
  LD [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/onoe/ath_rate_onoe.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/sample/sample.o
  LD [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/sample/ath_rate_sample.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/if_media.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_beacon.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_crypto.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_crypto_none.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_input.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_node.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_output.o
  CC [M]  /dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.o
/dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.c: In function 'ieee80211_pwrsave':
/dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.c:240: error: implicit declaration of function '__skb_append'
make[3]: *** [/dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic'
make: *** [modules] Fel 2
xawl@vardagsrummet:/dev/shm/madwifi-0.9.4$ 


======================0

from messages:

Jun 13 05:05:07 vardagsrummet kernel: [    8.593204] ath5k_pci 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
Jun 13 05:05:07 vardagsrummet kernel: [    8.593330] ath5k_pci 0000:01:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
Jun 13 05:05:07 vardagsrummet kernel: [    8.687423] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
Jun 13 05:05:07 vardagsrummet kernel: [    8.710213] intel_rng: FWH not detected
Jun 13 05:05:07 vardagsrummet kernel: [    8.732893] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
Jun 13 05:05:07 vardagsrummet kernel: [    8.738618] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.05
Jun 13 05:05:07 vardagsrummet kernel: [    8.739007] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH6-M TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0860)
Jun 13 05:05:07 vardagsrummet kernel: [    8.739242] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
Comment 1 John W. Linville 2009-06-15 20:10:15 UTC
Sounds like you need to report this to Ubuntu...

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