Bug#539844: ath5k: ath5k and orinoco 802.11b/g pcmcia card works on i686 kernel but not bigmem version
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem
Version: 2.6.26-17lenny1
Severity: important
File: ath5k
Recently installed Debian 5 with latest i686 kernel(2.6.26-2-i686). My wireless card(orinoco 802.11b/g pcmcia card) worked great. Realized my 4gb of memory wasn't being fully utilized so installed the same version of the bigmem kernel(and headers, etc). Rebooted into it and it gives the following error:
Aug 2 18:38:42 skynet kernel: [ 12.609417] ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0:
enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Aug 2 18:38:42 skynet kernel: [ 12.609417] ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0:
registered as 'phy0'
Aug 2 18:38:42 skynet kernel: [ 12.912966] ath5k_pci: probe of
0000:04:00.0 failed with error -110
Tried the backports 2.6.30-bigmem and failed, but with a different error(radio not supported).
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92o tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem suggests:
ii grub 0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn linux-doc-2.6.26 <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: false
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/initrd-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: false
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/preinst/abort-install-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
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