[Debian-eeepc-devel] eee 900 wifi problems
Sergio Blanco
crimsomshadow at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 20:00:44 UTC 2008
Meanwhile the moderator accepts (or not) the message with the log file
(40K), Iresend the text that accompanies the message ;-)
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Nope, no dongle, just basic eee 900.
Lets put some info here.
lsmod gives out all this:
Module Size Used by
ipv6 235300 8
usbhid 35904 0
hid 33184 1 usbhid
ff_memless 4392 1 usbhid
wlan_scan_sta 11264 1
ath_rate_sample 11072 1
ath_pci 202552 0
wlan 193776 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 300736 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
i915 25280 2
drm 65256 3 i915
reiserfs 189920 1
pciehp 28540 0
pci_hotplug 23460 1 pciehp
joydev 8480 0
usbtouchscreen 8356 0
psmouse 32336 0
serio_raw 4740 0
rng_core 3940 0
pcspkr 2432 0
i2c_i801 7920 0
i2c_core 19828 1 i2c_i801
iTCO_wdt 9508 0
video 16400 0
output 2912 1 video
battery 10180 0
ac 4196 0
button 6064 0
eeepc_laptop 7440 0
snd_hda_intel 324248 0
snd_pcm 62628 1 snd_hda_intel
atl2 22744 0
snd_seq 41456 0
snd_timer 17800 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6380 1 snd_seq
snd 45604 5 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
intel_agp 22300 1
agpgart 28776 3 drm,intel_agp
soundcore 6368 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
evdev 8000 7
xfs 458040 2
usb_storage 75936 0
sd_mod 22200 5
ata_piix 14180 3
ata_generic 4676 0
ahci 23176 0
libata 140384 3 ata_piix,ata_generic,ahci
scsi_mod 129356 3 usb_storage,sd_mod,libata
dock 8272 1 libata
ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent]
ide_core 96168 1 ide_pci_generic
ehci_hcd 28428 0
uhci_hcd 18672 0
usbcore 118160 6 usbhid,usbtouchscreen,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 15228 0
processor 32576 2 thermal
fan 4164 0
thermal_sys 10856 4 video,thermal,processor,fan
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Tail of syslog
Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:22:15:02:46:49
Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus kernel: [ 425.169138] atl2: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100
Mbps Full Duplex>
Oct 29 19:53:46 pegasus kernel: [ 545.293749] ath_hal: module license
'Proprietary' taints kernel.
Oct 29 19:53:46 pegasus kernel: [ 545.296189] AR5210, AR5211, AR5212,
AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.323728] ACPI: PCI Interrupt
0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.323752] PCI: Setting latency timer of
device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.815093] MadWifi: ath_attach: Switching
rfkill capability off.
Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.849588] wifi0: Atheros AR2425 chip
found (MAC 14.2, PHY SChip 7.0, Radio 10.2)
Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.858058] ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros
5424/2424: mem=0xfbef0000, irq=18
----------------------------------------------
Ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:af:a7:e0:d6
inet6 addr: fe80::215:afff:fea7:e0d6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:15:02:46:49
inet addr:192.168.25.19 Bcast:192.168.25.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:15ff:fe02:4649/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1392191 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Memory:fbfc0000-fc000000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-15-AF-A7-E0-D6-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:280
RX bytes:132 (132.0 B) TX bytes:1426 (1.3 KiB)
Interrupt:18
--------------------------------------------------------
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
------------------------------------------------------------
Result of iwlist ath0 scanning just after modprobing ath_pci
ath0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
Same command after ifconfig ath0 up
ath0 No scan results
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What about this lines of syslog?
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 15.936179] pciehp: Device 0000:03:00.0
already exists at 3:0, cannot hot-add
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 15.936289] pciehp: Cannot add device 0x3:0
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 16.940193] Load service driver hpdriver on
pcie device 0000:00:1c.1:pcie02
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 16.940231] pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086
device_id 2664 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 17.944184] pciehp: Device 0000:01:00.0
already exists at 1:0, cannot hot-add
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 17.944274] pciehp: Cannot add device 0x1:0
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 18.948196] Load service driver hpdriver on
pcie device 0000:00:1c.2:pcie02
Any ideas?
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Federico Castagnini <
federico.castagnini at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Paul Menzel
> <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > Dear Federico,
> >
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 14:40 -0200 schrieb Federico Castagnini:
> >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Ben Armstrong
> >> <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:57:37 +0100
> >> > "Sergio Blanco" <crimsomshadow at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> I'm using wicd so using the interfaces file is useless for me. Even
> if I
> >> >> tried, the first problem to solve would be it's inability to scan for
> APs.
> >> >> If I have the interface up and running it doesn't matter if it knows
> where
> >> >> to connect, I should be able to search for networks, no?
> >>
> >> I have made almost the same tests and still have the same problem, can
> >> not scan or connect.
> >>
> >> With a usb dongle (mod rt73) i was able to scan and use that interface
> >> as expected, so the trouble is with the atheros wifi device...
> >>
> >> This problem came up with an upgrade i made last week, that upgrade
> >> the kernel (plus other things) from 2.6.26-4? to 2.6.26-8.
> >>
> >> I think this is something relevant.
> >
> > You can find out inspecting /var/log/dpkg.log.
> >
> > […]
> >
> >> > Let's start with logs. Post /var/log/syslog and we can start there.
> >
> > Please provide the information, Ben asked for.
> >
>
> finaly, looking into syslog after enabling the wifi, found a line saying
> unable to load wlan_scan_sta
>
> and later google say:
> http://madwifi.org/ticket/1737#comment:2
>
> now the Atheros wifi is working again.
>
> Thank you all who help us with this problem.
> Federico Castagnini
>
> Sergio, do you have some dongle like me?
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