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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,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * 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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