[Mageia-dev] my pcmcia atheros network card doesnt work with 3.0x kernel

Sat Aug 6 12:05:28 CEST 2011

Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz skrev 6.8.2011 05:56:
+> Le Vendredi 05 Août 2011 13:12:20 Florian Hubold a écrit :
+>> Am 05.08.2011 11:39, schrieb Thierry Vignaud:
+>>> On 5 August 2011 11:03, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz<dlucio at okay.com.mx>
+> wrote:
+>>>> Well i've only tried in *-desktop kernels
+>>>> in
+>>>>
+>>>> 2.6.37.7 and 2.3.37.8 my atheros works perfectly with ath5k module
+>>>> 3.0.0 and 3.0.1rc1 it doesnt works, logs detect something pluged in
+>>>> pcmcia slot but after that nothing happens,  I've tried loading by
+>>>> hand ath5k module, but it doesnt works.  iwconfig or ifconfig -a
+>>>> commands doesnt shows nothing eighter.
+>>>>
+>>>> Just for your knowledge
+>>>
+>>> Please open a bug report instead of sending a mail.
+>>> Paste output of "lspcidrake -v|egrep -i 'net|ath'"
+>>> Also attach (ie do not paste) your dmesg output to the BR.
+>>
+>> There was a similar forum post for atk_htc, it just needed a newer firmware,
+>> maybe you can adapt that to ath5k module:
+>> https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=842
+>
+
+I'll update kernel-firmware-extra (and kernel-firmware) to get the new 
+firmwares for atk_htc available in cauldron...
+
+> OK,
+>
+> before breaking my cauldron,   what RPM shall i update so everybody getes
+> beneficied of this
+>
+> LD
+>
+
+for ath5k there is no firmware to update as it does not load any...
+So we reeally need a bugreport to see what's up...
+
+--
+Thomas
+