Atheos Chipset WIficard Isent Found

Emilml · 09-12-2006, 11:26 AM

Okey so i got a Packard bell Easy note 1995
and i cant seem to get slackware to finde the card.

Some info and stuff i have tryed.
I am running Slackware 10.2 whit kernel 2.6.13

i installed modules on nr 2 installer disk to get my mouse to work \its a razer daimondback\

then i used installpkg on this package slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/madwifi/pkg/10.2/madwifi-0.9.2_2.6.13-i486-1.tgz
and it was installed, i see it in the package manager so it shuld work.

since the card dident show up i tryed making my own build of the package by doing.
I opened up the terminal as root and did this.
1.lftp -c "open slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/madwifi/; mirror build"
2.cd /root/build
3.chmod +x madwifi.SlackBuild
4../madwifi.SlackBuild

and then i used installpkg to install that package.
i cant renember what it sayed, i ment it was some thing in the way of the package is alredy installed

then i ran upgradepkg and it sayed some thing like no need to upgrade u alredy have the package installed.

when i run ifconfig it dosent show ath0, only eth0 and lo
when i run iwconfig it dosent show any wireless devices

when i boot from the livecd Backtrack my wifi card works fine.

PCI in kinfocenter tells me this.
Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

So can anybody tell me what i am doing wrong caous i am all out of idears.

Alien Bob · 09-12-2006, 12:40 PM

Well you did install the correct package for your kernel.
What did you do to configure your card? Can you show what you added to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and/or /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf ?

Can you verify if

Code:

/sbin/ifconfig -a

shows the ath0 interface?
And what happens if you run

Code:

/sbin/modprobe ath_pci

and then look again at the output that the command

Code:

/sbin/ifconfig -a

produces?

Eric

Emilml · 09-13-2006, 12:18 AM

i have installed the right for my kernel, i run 2.6.13 and thats what that package is build for,

when i run

Code:

/sbin/ifconfig -a

it shows this

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:D0:94:0B:03
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::240:d0ff:fe94:b03/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:60681 (59.2 Kb)  TX bytes:16520 (16.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

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)

sit0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-31-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          NOARP  MTU:1480  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)

when i run

Code:

/sbin/modprobe ath_pci

and then

Code:

/sbin/ifconfig -a

it shows the same output as before.

in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf i added

Code:

# Config information for ath0 (using dhcp):
IFNAME[1]="ath0"
IPADDR[1]=""
NETMASK[1]=""
USE_DHCP[1]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]=""

between this

Code:

# Config information for eth3:
IPADDR[3]=""
NETMASK[3]=""
USE_DHCP[3]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[3]=""

and this

Code:

# Default gateway IP address:
GATEWAY=""

i havent added anything to

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf

MasterKin8T · 09-13-2006, 12:32 AM

I've been having a similar problem with my netgear wg511t card, however I think I am close to fixing it. Post a copy of your dmesg, and check lspci-v to see if you have an TI card bridges. If your situation is like mine then it has nothing to do with the driver but rather a deeper hardware issue.

Emilml · 09-13-2006, 01:02 AM

dmsg

Code:

Linux version 2.6.13 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.6) #1 Tue Sep 6 17:56:37 PDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003bfef000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003bff0000 - 000000003bffffc0 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003bffffc0 - 000000003c000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 OID_00                                ) @ 0x000e6010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 INSYDE FACP_000 0x00000100 0000 0x00010200) @ 0x3bffc2d0
ACPI: FADT (v001 INSYDE FACP_000 0x00000100 0000 0x00010200) @ 0x3bfffb00
ACPI: MADT (v001 INSYDE APIC_000 0x30303030 0000 0x00010200) @ 0x3bfffb90
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INSYDE    PN800 0x00001000 INTL 0x02002036) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 3c000000 (gap: 3c000000:c3f80000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=304
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 1592.297 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 902300k/917504k available (4116k kernel code, 14752k reserved, 2096k data, 252k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3188.66 BogoMIPS (lpj=6377325)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.60GHz stepping 08
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0ca0)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xe9b04, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 1)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 *7 10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 23) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *5, disabled.
    ACPI-0229: *** Error: Return object type is incorrect [\_SB_.PCI0.ALKD._CRS] (Node c17f2e00), AE_TYPE
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 21) *0
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: c000-dfff
  MEM window: c0000000-cfffffff
  PREFETCH window: 90000000-9fffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
NTFS driver 2.1.23 [Flags: R/W].
JFS: nTxBlock = 7049, nTxLock = 56397
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
vesafb: framebuffer at 0x90000000, mapped to 0xf8c80000, using 1536k, total 65536k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=84
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a81f
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0)
HP CISS Driver (v 2.6.6)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.1, from 0 to 11
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1100-0x1107, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1108-0x110f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST9100822A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: MATSHITAUJ-850D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 > hda4
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1.2-lk2 Sep  6 2005)
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
qlogicfas: no cards were found, please specify I/O address and IRQ using iobase= and irq= options<6>QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.0.29
Copyright(c) 2004-2005 Emulex.  All rights reserved.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
megaraid: 2.20.4.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005)
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.001.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.002.
nsp32: loading...
ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.0.14 (May 2, 2005)
libata version 1.12 loaded.
I2O subsystem v1.288
i2o: max drivers = 8
I2O Configuration OSM v1.248
I2O Bus Adapter OSM v$Rev$
I2O Block Device OSM v1.287
I2O SCSI Peripheral OSM v1.282
I2O ProcFS OSM v1.145
Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.02
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.02
Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.03.02
usbmon: debugfs is not available
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
SBTN  LAN AC97 MC97  KBC
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5)
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k freed
Adding 1951856k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio3
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Device 'i82365.0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
Badness in device_release at drivers/base/core.c:83
 [<c02a9993>] kobject_cleanup+0x83/0x90
 [<c02a99a0>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10
 [<c02aa273>] kref_put+0x33/0x80
 [<c02a99c6>] kobject_put+0x16/0x20
 [<c02a99a0>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10
 [<f8c7a262>] init_i82365+0x172/0x189 [i82365]
 [<c0130472>] sys_init_module+0x122/0x1b0
 [<c0102ea9>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
firmware_class_init: class_register failed
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xd0000000, 00:40:d0:94:0b:03, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 45e1.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.3 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 10, io mem 0x3c010000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 11, io base 0x00001200
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 7
PCI: setting IRQ 7 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 7, io base 0x00001220
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 5, io base 0x00001240
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Razer Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:10.0-2
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.2)
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.2)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.2)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:06.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A]: no GSI
wifi%d: request_irq failed
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
agpgart: Detected VIA PM800/PN800/PM880/PN880 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xa0000000
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0612020(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

how do i check lspci-v to see if i have an TI card bridges

Alien Bob · 09-13-2006, 03:41 AM

Emilml, have you tried upgrading your wireless-tools package? The package that comes standard with Slackware 10.2 is just too old to work well with recent 2.6 kernels. Try upgrading using the package found here: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...ools/pkg/10.2/

Your dmesg output shows that the ath_pci module gets loaded on boot but the error message "wifi%d: request_irq failed" is not good. Either there is a hardware compatibility problem like MasterKin8T states, or the driver can not correctly communicate due to the old wireless-tools that you have installed.

PS once you get the driver to load and you have your "ath0" interface, you will need to tell the card to associate to the correct Access Point by providing values for the ESSID, WEPKEY, and such. Or is your Wireless Access Point completely open and unsecured?

Eric

Emilml · 09-13-2006, 04:18 AM

i have installed the pkg now but still cant see the ath0

MasterKin8T · 09-13-2006, 05:12 PM

At Lilo bootup try passing "pci=assign-busses" in other words:

Linux pci=assign-busses

Im not to confident that this will do anything for you right at the moment, but more than likely in the end you will have to end up passing it.

In konsole (or whereever) try lspci -v and see if you can see your card in there (more than likely will say Atheros blah blah...). There should be an entry for you pcmica bridge, or just go a | grep Texas to see if you have a TI bridge.

Again, I understand this may sound strange, but also check to see if you have "IO-ACPI support on uniprocessors" and "Local ACPI support on uniprocessors" built into the kernel. It seems like your getting IRQ's above 16 that are being listed, so they might already be in, but I would double check.

*EDIT* Just as an extra step, check to see if you have "yenta-bridge support" built into the kernel. It should be under PCMCIA->PCMCIA/CARDBUS->