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hp pavillion dv6810us - no wifi

hi i am unable to use the wifi card on this laptop using fc-9 live-usb. heres the pertinent info:

Code:

[fedora@localhost ~]$ cat  lspci.out

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2)

00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev a2)

00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus (rev a2)

00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2)

00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Co-processor (rev a2)

00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)

00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)

00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)

00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)

00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1)

00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)

00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Bridge (rev a2)

00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller (rev a2)

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet (rev a2)

00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)

00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)

00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7150M (rev a2)

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)

02:05.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)

02:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)

02:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)

02:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)



[fedora@localhost ~]$ ifconfig -a  

eth4      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:68:37:xx:xx  

          inet addr:192.168.5.8  Bcast:192.168.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:68ff:fe37:253b/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:931 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:641 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:1238611 (1.1 MiB)  TX bytes:54836 (53.5 KiB)

          Interrupt:20 Base address:0x6000 



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:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:13360 (13.0 KiB)  TX bytes:13360 (13.0 KiB)



pan0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5E:02:BA:69:xx:xx  

          BROADCAST 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)



[fedora@localhost ~]$ iwconfig 

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth4      no wireless extensions.



pan0      no wireless extensions.

anyone can tell me if it is possible to use wireless internet ?
thanks,

fyi, in case it matters:

Code:

[fedora@localhost ~]$ sudo /sbin/lsmod 

Module                  Size  Used by

bridge                46104  0 

bnep                  14464  2 

rfcomm                34576  4 

l2cap                  22272  16 bnep,rfcomm

fuse                  41116  3 

sunrpc                151412  3 

ipt_REJECT              6784  2 

nf_conntrack_ipv4      11396  1 

iptable_filter          6528  1 

ip_tables              13840  1 iptable_filter

ip6t_REJECT            7552  2 

nf_conntrack_ipv6      15864  1 

xt_state                5888  2 

nf_conntrack          49748  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state

ip6table_filter        6400  1 

ip6_tables            14736  1 ip6table_filter

x_tables              15236  5 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_state,ip6_tables

cpufreq_ondemand      10124  1 

powernow_k8            18308  1 

dm_mirror              26116  0 

dm_multipath          18056  0 

nouveau              145920  1 

drm                  145508  2 nouveau

i2c_core              20628  1 drm

ipv6                  221660  14 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6

pcspkr                  6272  0 

snd_hda_intel        330144  2 

joydev                12608  0 

k8temp                  7936  0 

hwmon                  6300  1 k8temp

ath5k                105736  0 

snd_seq_dummy          6660  0 

mac80211              185184  1 ath5k

snd_seq_oss            30364  0 

snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss

snd_seq                48448  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event

cfg80211              24712  2 ath5k,mac80211

snd_seq_device        10124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq

snd_pcm_oss            42496  0 

snd_mixer_oss          16768  1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm                67076  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss

ricoh_mmc              7552  0 

snd_timer              21640  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc        11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel

forcedeth              46220  0 

snd                    48312  14 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep

soundcore              9288  1 snd

video                  20368  0 

output                  6656  1 video

wmi                    9640  0 

battery                14084  0 

ac                      8068  0 

button                10000  0 

hci_usb                16284  2 

bluetooth              47588  8 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb

sg                    31028  0 

ext3                  108936  1 

jbd                    40980  1 ext3

dm_snapshot            18596  1 

dm_mod                49236  6 dm_mirror,dm_multipath,dm_snapshot

squashfs              36488  2 

ext2                  59144  1 

mbcache                10116  2 ext3,ext2

sd_mod                25624  2 

pata_acpi              8192  0 

ata_generic            8964  0 

usb_storage            76296  1 

sdhci                  16908  0 

firewire_ohci          21636  0 

firewire_core          34208  1 firewire_ohci

ahci                  26760  0 

crc_itu_t              5760  1 firewire_core

mmc_core              40604  1 sdhci

pata_amd              13444  0 

libata                126816  4 pata_acpi,ata_generic,ahci,pata_amd

ehci_hcd              32268  0 

ohci_hcd              22276  0 

loop                  16772  10 

sr_mod                17064  0 

scsi_mod              121204  5 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage,libata,sr_mod

cdrom                  32796  1 sr_mod

[fedora@localhost ~]$

here's some more info

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# modprobe -l | grep ath

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/drivers/md/multipath.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/drivers/md/dm-multipath.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko

someone on another thread mentioned madwifi. i'll try installing it thru yum and see if that works ?

Hi schneidz, from this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4-wifi-722094/, I'm guessing that ndiswrapper on the proprietary windows driver will work, but you may have issues with WPA or WPA2 wireless encryption.

From here: http://www.atheros.com/news/linux.html, it seems that the madwifi drivers will work with your chipset, see here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/, and this is the download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=576121.

Finally, I found a blog post that is basically a howto install madwifi atheros drivers in fedora 9:http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/in...edora-9-howto/.

Hope that helps!

^ madwifi seemed not to work. i downloaded and extracted the archive from http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=576121

then i cd to that dir and type make.

then i do
modprobe -r ath5k ath_pci
modprobe ath_pci

but network-manager only lists the wired network.

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth4      no wireless extensions.



pan0      no wireless extensions.



[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig -a

eth4      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:68:37:xx:xx  

          inet addr:192.168.5.4  Bcast:192.168.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:68ff:fe37:253b/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:14693 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:10339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:19618246 (18.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1111405 (1.0 MiB)

          Interrupt:20 Base address:0x4000 



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:1338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:1338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:67060 (65.4 KiB)  TX bytes:67060 (65.4 KiB)



pan0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B6:59:24:0F:xx:xx  

          BROADCAST 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)



[root@localhost ~]# modprobe -l | grep ath

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/drivers/md/multipath.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/drivers/md/dm-multipath.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/net/ath_rate_amrr.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/net/ath_hal.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/net/ath_rate_onoe.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/net/ath_rate_sample.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/net/ath_rate_minstrel.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/net/ath_pci.ko

[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep ath

ath_pci                80544  0 

wlan                  169804  1 ath_pci

ath_hal              193360  1 ath_pci

dm_multipath          18056  0 

dm_mod                49236  6 dm_mirror,dm_multipath,dm_snapshot

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perhaps ndiswrapper will work (where can i get the windows driver ?)

That's a fairly old kernel you're using, and F9 support will be terminated this June or July. I'd consider upgrading to F10 (or F11 when it's released in a couple of weeks).

Did you get any error messages when you did the make?

Did you do the sudo make install before you did the modprobe?

Did you get the madwifi 0.10.5.6 code from the snaphots download area? (Remember, the "stock" madwifi driver will not work with your hardware.)

^ i rolled my own backup of fc-9 with software that i like so restoring takes a few minutes...
(good suggestion to upgrade though)

no errors with make (or sudo make install).

wasnt sure that there was a snapshot madwifi and a stock madwifi; i got mines from the link in my previous post so i guess it is stock... i'll look into it and retry.

thanks for the suggestions...
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edit:
i downloaded and installed this file: http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org...current.tar.gz
there is no configure script in these drivers. i did make; sudo make install
modprobe -r ath5k ath_pci; modprobe ath_pci

but still same results as before.

I've got a new laptop with EXACTLY the same wifi device. So far I've tried Slackware 12.2 and Fedora 11 beta - wifi works out of the box (ath5k). As someone suggested, F9 is fairly old. It might be better to get F11. It will save you some hassle.

^ maybe i'll respin another usb-thumb drive...

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneidz (Post 3530028)

<snip>
edit:
i downloaded and installed this file: http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org...current.tar.gz
there is no configure script in these drivers. i did make; sudo make install
modprobe -r ath5k ath_pci; modprobe ath_pci

but still same results as before.

O.K., go back to that page and download the madwifi-hal-0.10.6.5 tar file and use it. The "current" snapshot is of the latest "current" release, not the one that fixes the problem with your hardware on a 64-bit OS. (I note from the comment by sycamorex that the ath5k driver seens to be working for him, but he doesn't state if he's using a 64-bit or 32-bit OS. (It is,of course, possible that the ath5k driver has been upgraded, but I think that the "current" snapshot you compile is the latest ath5k one. Obviously, since you removed the ath5k module, having the latest version wouldn't help much, eh? You could try a sudo modprob ath5k and see if that works now.)

Quote:

(I note from the comment by sycamorex that the ath5k driver seens to be working for him, but he doesn't state if he's using a 64-bit or 32-bit OS

It's a 32-bit system. That's what comes up on Fedora11beta:

Quote:

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

Quote:

cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ath5k/module/version

0.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)

lsmod:

Quote:

ath5k 117480 0
mac80211 164680 1 ath5k
cfg80211 30560 2 ath5k,mac80211

Quote:

(I note from the comment by sycamorex that the ath5k driver seens to be working for him, but he doesn't state if he's using a 64-bit or 32-bit OS

It's a 32-bit system. That's what comes up on Fedora11beta:

Quote:

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

Quote:

cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ath5k/module/version

0.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)

lsmod:

Quote:

ath5k 117480 0
mac80211 164680 1 ath5k
cfg80211 30560 2 ath5k,mac80211

Quote:

Originally Posted by PTrenholme (Post 3531610)

hi i havent revisited this yet but i tried the first time with the madwifi-hal-0.10.6.5. it also doesnt work before i remove the ath5k module... i'll try again sometime and see if i make progress.

it works in fc-10 live usb 64-bit.

edit:

you arent gonna' beleive this. i just tried again with my customized fc-9 usb-flashdrive and there is some switch under the keyboard that toggles on/ off the bluetooth and wifi.

after installing the snapshots archive, i got it to work.

thanks,

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneidz (Post 3532425)

<snip> i just tried again with my customized fc-9 usb-flashdrive and there is some switch under the keyboard that toggles on/ off the bluetooth and wifi.
</snip>

Oh, I believe it alright: Yesterday I spent some time trying to figure out why my laptop couldn't connect to my router. I finally booted Vista (which, of course, uses the official Atheros driver) and got the message that "The WiFi is disabled." Which reminded me that this laptop has a WiFi "on-off" switch at the front of the keyboard where it can be moved when the laptop is slid off my lap.

Turned it on,and everything works again.

Does anyone have any idea why the wiFi (or Bluetooth) on a laptop would have a physical "on/off" switch? Those devices don't use a significant amount of power so turning them off when your battery is low won't save you more than a minute at most, will it?