Hello, My distributor (kanotix) adviced me to report here... Something seems to be wrong with the ath5k wireless driver in kernels higher than 2.6.32.21. My Atheros networkcard doesn`t work with these kernels. Until 2.6.32.21 it works fine. Any advices? "lspci -vnn" says: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:001c] (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:137b] Physical Slot: 1 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at d2600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ath5k "dmesg" under: http://paste.debian.net/126593/ I will use this oppetunity to thank you all for your work. Regards from Germany from a normal user, not an expert... :)
That link seems to be wrong. It says there is "some error". Could you try adding the dmesg output as an attachment here?
So v2.6.32.21 is the first bad kernel, or last good kernel and 2.6.32.22 is the first bad kernel? Or is 2.6.33 the first bad kernel? Not much happened in that range specifically for ath5k: $ git log v2.6.32.20..v2.6.32.23 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k | git shortlog John W. Linville (1): ath5k: check return value of ieee80211_get_tx_rate Maxim Levitsky (1): ath5k: disable ASPM L0s for all cards I don't think either of those would be guilty. v2.6.33 had a number of potential candidates.
Thanks for answering. 32.21 is the highest 32er I tried. The first bad kernel I tried is called 2.6.33-02063307-generic. It` s an ubuntu-Kernel, modified (but not the ath5k) by Kano from the Kanotix-team. http://kanotix.com/files/fix/mainline/ regards ___________________________________________________________ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar
Yes of course. 3dmesgLinux 3.1.0-0301rc2-generic i686[../email/download?si=kkwMPr3wyN9S5eQVNhx*025&draft=b6f942f57bd52fcf032fd6986e82f6db&file=0fc0093cf89785d04b3b70af5191b82c] is from the not working 3.1.0.Kernel 32dmesg is from the working 32.21 kernel. thanks for answering. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Gesendet: 22.08.2011 15:30:20 An: m.f.janfranke@web.de Betreff: [Bug 41382] ath5k >https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41382 > > >John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |linville@tuxdriver.com, > | |me@bobcopeland.com, > | |mickflemm@gmail.com > > > > >--- Comment #1 from John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 2011-08-22 >13:29:45 --- >That link seems to be wrong. It says there is "some error". Could you try >adding the dmesg output as an attachment here? > >-- >Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email >------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- >You reported the bug. ___________________________________________________________ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar
(In reply to comment #4) > Yes of course. > 3dmesgLinux 3.1.0-0301rc2-generic > > i686[../email/download?si=kkwMPr3wyN9S5eQVNhx*025&draft=b6f942f57bd52fcf032fd6986e82f6db&file=0fc0093cf89785d04b3b70af5191b82c] > is from the not working 3.1.0.Kernel > 32dmesg is from the working 32.21 kernel. > thanks for answering. I am not sure how you tried to attach this (email?) but it didn't work -- you should add it on bugzilla.kernel.org. I'm afraid to get further, we will need you to build and test some kernels on your hardware. 2.6.33 is quite old now, and the range of 2.6.32 to 3.1 is simply too large. git-bisect would be the best option, or you can try reverting patches from 2.6.33 until it works acceptably, then try the same on later kernels. Of course some issues that were introduced in the .33 time frame might be fixed in later kernels and other things regressed, so YMMV. Here are some candidates for issues in 2.6.33: commit e5e2647fd6ceef2cdc479954b84517535eb7febd Author: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Date: Wed Oct 14 14:16:30 2009 -0400 ath5k: use noise calibration from madwifi hal commit f1cf2dbd0f798b71b1590e7aca6647f2caef1649 Author: Lukáš Turek <8an@praha12.net> Date: Thu Nov 19 23:02:02 2009 +0100 ath5k: Fix I/Q calibration
Does this problem persist with 3.2 kernels?
Yes and with 3.3.4 too. When I boot (with WIFI switch ON), WIFI doesn't work, "rfkill list" gives : Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes I'm forced to do (after each boot or suspend) : rmmod -f ath5k rfkill unblock all modprobe ath5k and then it works.
Still exists with 3.4.4 kernel.
Still exists with 3.5.1 kernel.