Re: Bug#658401: base: Atheros AR9285 Wi-Fi adapter not working on HP 630 notebook with Wheezy
reassign 658401 linux-2.6
thanks
On Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2012, Illés Gábor wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
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> * What led up to the situation?
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
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> I have a fresh install of Wheezy on my new laptop, and noticed that my
> Wi-Fi adapter doesn't work. I turned on and off several times the wireless
> switch on the laptop's keyboard - no effect. Issued rfkill list command
> shows that the switch does not do anything: phy0 is soft and hard blocked
> too at all time (the hp-wifi Wireless LAN on the other way is stucked soft
> - yes, hard - no state). I have Windows installed on a different
> partition, haven't experienced any problem with the adapter.
>
> The device is showing at lspci list:
> ....
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless
> Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
> ....
>
> and the ath9k module are present:
> lsmod:
>
> ....
> mac80211 183047 1 ath9k
> ath9k_common 12682 1 ath9k
> ath9k_hw 281405 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
> ....
>
> I have a wireless usb adapter - SMCWUSB-G type - and with the installation
> of the appropriate package (zd1211) from the repo it had worked perfectly
> - network manager and all that.
>
> Anyway, this is my first use of reportbug, so please excuse me, if i forget
> something to add.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=hu_HU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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