Nobody knows what to do?<br><br>I still insist, none of the USB Installers could scan, and only the oldest I found could connect. Once I can scan for APs, probably everything will go right<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Sergio Blanco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crimsomshadow@gmail.com">crimsomshadow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Meanwhile the moderator accepts (or not) the message with the log file (40K), Iresend the text that accompanies the message ;-)<br>
----------------------------------------<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><p>Nope, no dongle, just basic eee 900.</p><p>Lets put some info here.</p>
<p>lsmod gives out all this:</p><p>Module Size Used by<br>ipv6 235300 8 <br>usbhid 35904 0 <br>
hid 33184 1 usbhid<br>ff_memless 4392 1 usbhid<br>wlan_scan_sta 11264 1 <br>ath_rate_sample 11072 1 <br>ath_pci 202552 0 <br>wlan 193776 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci<br>
ath_hal 300736 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci<br>i915 25280 2 <br>drm 65256 3 i915<br>reiserfs 189920 1 <br>pciehp 28540 0 <br>pci_hotplug 23460 1 pciehp<br>
joydev 8480 0 <br>usbtouchscreen 8356 0 <br>psmouse 32336 0 <br>serio_raw 4740 0 <br>rng_core 3940 0 <br>pcspkr 2432 0 <br>i2c_i801 7920 0 <br>
i2c_core 19828 1 i2c_i801<br>iTCO_wdt 9508 0 <br>video 16400 0 <br>output 2912 1 video<br>battery 10180 0 <br>ac 4196 0 <br>
button 6064 0 <br>eeepc_laptop 7440 0 <br>snd_hda_intel 324248 0 <br>snd_pcm 62628 1 snd_hda_intel<br>atl2 22744 0 <br>snd_seq 41456 0 <br>
snd_timer 17800 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq<br>snd_seq_device 6380 1 snd_seq<br>snd 45604 5 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device<br>intel_agp 22300 1 <br>
agpgart 28776 3 drm,intel_agp<br>
soundcore 6368 1 snd<br>snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm<br>evdev 8000 7 <br>xfs 458040 2 <br>usb_storage 75936 0 <br>sd_mod 22200 5 <br>
ata_piix 14180 3 <br>ata_generic 4676 0 <br>ahci 23176 0 <br>libata 140384 3 ata_piix,ata_generic,ahci<br>scsi_mod 129356 3 usb_storage,sd_mod,libata<br>
dock 8272 1 libata<br>ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent]<br>ide_core 96168 1 ide_pci_generic<br>ehci_hcd 28428 0 <br>uhci_hcd 18672 0 <br>usbcore 118160 6 usbhid,usbtouchscreen,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd<br>
thermal 15228 0 <br>processor 32576 2 thermal<br>fan 4164 0 <br>thermal_sys 10856 4 video,thermal,processor,fan<br></p><p>-----------------------</p><p>Tail of syslog<br>
<br>Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:22:15:02:46:49<br>Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback<br>Oct 29 19:51:46 pegasus kernel: [ 425.169138] atl2: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex><br>
Oct 29 19:53:46 pegasus kernel: [ 545.293749] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.<br>Oct
29 19:53:46 pegasus kernel: [ 545.296189] AR5210, AR5211, AR5212,
AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)<br>
Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.323728] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18<br>Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.323752] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64<br>
Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.815093] MadWifi: ath_attach: Switching rfkill capability off.<br>Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.849588] wifi0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC 14.2, PHY SChip 7.0, Radio 10.2)<br>
Oct 29 19:53:47 pegasus kernel: [ 545.858058] ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros 5424/2424: mem=0xfbef0000, irq=18<br>----------------------------------------------<br></p><p>Ifconfig</p><p>ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:af:a7:e0:d6 <br>
inet6 addr: fe80::215:afff:fea7:e0d6/64 Scope:Link<br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 <br> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)<br><br>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:15:02:46:49 <br> inet addr:<a href="http://192.168.25.19/" target="_blank">192.168.25.19</a> Bcast:<a href="http://192.168.25.255/" target="_blank">192.168.25.255</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.255.255.0/" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a><br>
inet6 addr: fe80::222:15ff:fe02:4649/64 Scope:Link<br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br> RX packets:1600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:1537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4<br>
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 <br> RX bytes:1392191 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)<br> Memory:fbfc0000-fc000000 <br><br>lo Link encap:Local Loopback <br> inet addr:<a href="http://127.0.0.1/" target="_blank">127.0.0.1</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.0.0.0/" target="_blank">255.0.0.0</a><br>
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host<br> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1<br> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 <br> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)<br><br>wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-15-AF-A7-E0-D6-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 <br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br>
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:280 <br> RX bytes:132 (132.0 B) TX bytes:1426 (1.3 KiB)<br>
Interrupt:18 <br>--------------------------------------------------------<br></p><p>iwconfig<br><br>lo no wireless extensions.<br><br>eth0 no wireless extensions.<br><br>wifi0 no wireless extensions.<br>
<br>ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""<br> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated <br> Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 <br>
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off<br>
Encryption key:off<br> Power Management:off<br> Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm<br> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0<br> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0<br>
------------------------------------------------------------<br></p><p>Result of iwlist ath0 scanning just after modprobing ath_pci<br></p><p>ath0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down<br><br>Same command after ifconfig ath0 up<br>
</p><p>ath0 No scan results<br>-----------------------------------------------------<br></p><p>What about this lines of syslog? </p><p>Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 15.936179] pciehp: Device 0000:03:00.0 already exists at 3:0, cannot hot-add<br>
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 15.936289] pciehp: Cannot add device 0x3:0<br>Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 16.940193] Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.1:pcie02<br>Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 16.940231] pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 2664 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0<br>
Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 17.944184] pciehp: Device 0000:01:00.0 already exists at 1:0, cannot hot-add<br>Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 17.944274] pciehp: Cannot add device 0x1:0<br>Oct 29 19:45:01 pegasus kernel: [ 18.948196] Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.2:pcie02<br>
<br></p>Any ideas?<br>
<br><br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Federico Castagnini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:federico.castagnini@gmail.com" target="_blank">federico.castagnini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div>On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Paul Menzel<br>
<<a href="mailto:paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear Federico,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 14:40 -0200 schrieb Federico Castagnini:<br>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Ben Armstrong<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca" target="_blank">synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:57:37 +0100<br>
>> > "Sergio Blanco" <<a href="mailto:crimsomshadow@gmail.com" target="_blank">crimsomshadow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> I'm using wicd so using the interfaces file is useless for me. Even if I<br>
>> >> tried, the first problem to solve would be it's inability to scan for APs.<br>
>> >> If I have the interface up and running it doesn't matter if it knows where<br>
>> >> to connect, I should be able to search for networks, no?<br>
>><br>
>> I have made almost the same tests and still have the same problem, can<br>
>> not scan or connect.<br>
>><br>
>> With a usb dongle (mod rt73) i was able to scan and use that interface<br>
>> as expected, so the trouble is with the atheros wifi device...<br>
>><br>
>> This problem came up with an upgrade i made last week, that upgrade<br>
>> the kernel (plus other things) from 2.6.26-4? to 2.6.26-8.<br>
>><br>
>> I think this is something relevant.<br>
><br>
> You can find out inspecting /var/log/dpkg.log.<br>
><br>
> […]<br>
><br>
>> > Let's start with logs. Post /var/log/syslog and we can start there.<br>
><br>
> Please provide the information, Ben asked for.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>finaly, looking into syslog after enabling the wifi, found a line saying<br>
unable to load wlan_scan_sta<br>
<br>
and later google say:<br>
<a href="http://madwifi.org/ticket/1737#comment:2" target="_blank">http://madwifi.org/ticket/1737#comment:2</a><br>
<br>
now the Atheros wifi is working again.<br>
<br>
Thank you all who help us with this problem.<br>
Federico Castagnini<br>
<br>
Sergio, do you have some dongle like me?<br>
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