Re: Airport gone
Hi,
I have indeed the original airport, this is an original iBook.
Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>as I wrote a little while ago, I had issues with Airport on my iBook G3.
>Now I installed several updates, including kernel and others... I reboot and
>notice that I have no airport at all!
Did you keep your older kernel around ? If so could you please reboot
using an older kernel, and report back if Airport can be seen or not.
luckily yes! I had vmlinux.old and yaboot configured.
Linux fuchur 4.4.0-1-powerpc #1 Debian 4.4.6-1 (2016-03-17) ppc GNU/Linux
This kernel works. It detects my airport, interestingly named "eth0"
which would be an obsolete name I guess. I see it in dmesg
I get the firmware error and the card's firmware gets loaded:
[ 13.651507] airport 0.15 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org>)
[ 13.651756] airport: Physical address 80030000
[ 15.187884] airport 0.00030000:radio: Hardware identity
0005:0001:0001:0002
[ 15.188547] airport 0.00030000:radio: Station identity
001f:0001:0008:0046
[ 15.188857] airport 0.00030000:radio: Firmware determined as
Lucent/Agere 8.70
[ 15.580735] airport 0.00030000:radio: firmware: failed to load
agere_sta_fw.bin (-2)
[ 15.581596] airport 0.00030000:radio: firmware: failed to load
agere_sta_fw.bin (-2)
[ 15.581676] airport 0.00030000:radio: Hardware identity
0005:0001:0001:0002
[ 15.581795] airport 0.00030000:radio: Station identity
001f:0001:0008:0046
[ 15.581818] airport 0.00030000:radio: Firmware determined as
Lucent/Agere 8.70
[ 15.581829] airport 0.00030000:radio: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
[ 15.581840] airport 0.00030000:radio: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode
supported
[ 15.581853] airport 0.00030000:radio: WEP supported, 104-bit key
and it works, even wireless with WEP :)
I'm happy that the card works fine and that this is a proof that it can
work without new firmware.
As prediced, lspci doesn't detect it, sorry for the noise.
The new kernel:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 12 22:12 /boot/vmlinux ->
vmlinux-4.5.0-2-powerpc
this one is the problematic one, Wireless is gone.
Riccardo
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