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Re: Toshiba Satellite L305D internal Atheros 5000_PCI wireless help



On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:21:04 -0400
Harry Wert <harry.wert@gmail.com> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:38:09 -0400
> > Harry Wert <harry.wert@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Can Anyone out there provide any guidance or references concerning 
> >> getting the internal wireless (ATH5000_PCI) working with my Toshiba 
> >> L305D?  I have been goggling with no successful hits to-date. Otherwise 
> >> I have everything else working.  I have been able to get a Linksys usb 
> >> network adapter to run (WUSB54G ver 4) but I would prefer to use the 
> >> built-in.
> > 
> > The first step is the relevant lspci output.
> > 
> > Celejar
> 
> Looks as if I gave some bad information as the kernel is reporting the 
> internal wireless pc card is:
> 
>   ath5k_pci 0000:05:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> 
>   ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip
> 
>   ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:00.0 disabled
> 
>   ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -5
> 
>   phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
> 
> ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> 
>   ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> 
> 
> 
> I'll continue to investigate since MadWifi loaded a number of Atheros 
> drivers which apparently do not work with my internal wireless card.
> 
> Also, I'll probably put this in the "Too Hard" pile since I am a 
> Physicist and not a Computer Science major!
> 
> lspci did not show it as being loaded.
> 
> Thanks for your advice.

A)  Your kernel messages seem to indicate a mixture of Madwifi and
ath5k.  Choose one or the other.

B)  You are reporting kernel messages, not lspci output.

Celejar
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