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Bug#604613: marked as done (ath5k driver refuses to get an IP address from dhclient in squeeze)

Your message dated Fri, 5 Jul 2013 20:15:57 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #604613,
regarding ath5k driver refuses to get an IP address from dhclient in squeeze
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--- Begin Message --- Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
Version: 2.6.32-27

When I use the ath5k driver, it fails to resolve an IP address from using the dhclient command. Here are the commands that I entered:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid default
dhclient wlan0

These steps worked with Lenny. The card that I'm using is an SMCWPCI-G based Atheros card, which I believe uses the AR5007G chipset.

Output from dmesg | grep ath5k:

[    5.689292] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    5.689353] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: registered as 'phy0'
[    6.416794] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)

Output from kern | grep ath5k:

Nov 22 14:12:05 debian-box kernel: [    5.621466] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Nov 22 14:12:05 debian-box kernel: [    5.621531] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: registered as 'phy0'
Nov 22 14:12:05 debian-box kernel: [    6.231139] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)
Nov 22 17:19:45 debian-box kernel: [    5.766165] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Nov 22 17:19:45 debian-box kernel: [    5.766235] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: registered as 'phy0'
Nov 22 17:19:45 debian-box kernel: [    6.469400] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)
Nov 22 19:34:41 debian-box kernel: [    5.689279] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Nov 22 19:34:41 debian-box kernel: [    5.689345] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: registered as 'phy0'
Nov 22 19:34:41 debian-box kernel: [    6.299683] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)
Nov 22 19:45:10 debian-box kernel: [    5.689292] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Nov 22 19:45:10 debian-box kernel: [    5.689353] ath5k 0000:00:09.0: registered as 'phy0'
Nov 22 19:45:10 debian-box kernel: [    6.416794] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)

Output from kern | grep wlan0:

Nov 22 14:14:52 debian-box kernel: [  176.720056] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Nov 22 14:14:54 debian-box kernel: [  178.558439] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 (try 1)
Nov 22 14:14:54 debian-box kernel: [  178.756014] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 (try 2)
Nov 22 14:14:54 debian-box kernel: [  178.956008] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 (try 3)
Nov 22 14:14:55 debian-box kernel: [  179.156007] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 timed out
Nov 22 19:35:56 debian-box kernel: [   84.311427] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Nov 22 19:37:32 debian-box kernel: [  180.328121] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 (try 1)
Nov 22 19:37:32 debian-box kernel: [  180.528011] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 (try 2)
Nov 22 19:37:32 debian-box kernel: [  180.602991] wlan0: direct probe responded
Nov 22 19:37:32 debian-box kernel: [  180.602995] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 (try 1)
Nov 22 19:37:32 debian-box kernel: [  180.800006] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 (try 2)
Nov 22 19:37:32 debian-box kernel: [  181.000007] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 (try 3)
Nov 22 19:37:33 debian-box kernel: [  181.200006] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:15:e9:65:fb:86 timed out

The only issue I can see is in the last result, which is reporting authentication problems. However, I really don't know of any way of correcting the problem. I did, however, test the ath5k module against two other distros, Fedora 14, and Ubuntu 10.10, which use the 2.6.35 kernel and both were able to connect successfully. So this may be an upstream problem that was corrected, but wasn't ported back to this kernel. I don't know for sure because I'm not a kernel developer.

Anyone willing to take a stab at it?
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Hi,
your bug has been filed against the "linux-2.6" source package and was filed for
a kernel older than the recently released Debian 7.x / Wheezy with a severity
less than important.

We don't have the ressources to reproduce the complete backlog of all older kernel
bugs, so we're closing this bug for now. If you can reproduce the bug with Debian Wheezy
or a more recent kernel from testing or unstable, please reopen the bug by sending
a mail to control@bugs.debian.org with the following three commands included in the
mail:

reopen BUGNUMBER
reassign BUGNUMBER src:linux
thanks

Cheers,
        Moritz

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