Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Osamu Aoki<osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:09:20PM -0500, Autumn Lansing wrote:
>> I've wasted most of my Saturday trying to get wireless to work with
>> the latest kernel on my 64-bit Sid box. I have an Atheros ar5001x
>> card, and I've been using an older 2.6.22 kernel with madwifi drivers
>> for the past two years. I'm rather conservative in upgrading my
>> kernel, precisely because of issues like I've had today, but I found
>> need for 2.6.30-1.
>
> You know there is FREE driver for Atheros chips in kernel now. I guess
> yours is one of them.
>
>> As madwifi is gone from Debian testing and unstable, I decided to
>> switch to the ath5K drivers included in the latest kernel. I followed
>> the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/ath5k, with the
>> exception that I use wicd to manage my network, and as such I had no
>> need to amend my interfaces file.
>>
>> After rebooting and a little fiddling, the ath5k driver came up, and
>> wicd found my wireless network. I can't however connect to it. It
>> tries to connect, usually timing out while getting a valid
>> authentication, but sometimes it manages to validate the WEP key and
>> attempts to obtain an IP address but then times out doing that.
>
> Have you ajusted configuration to new device names?
>
As udev insists on renaming wlan0 to ath0, I haven't had to rename the
device in configuration files. I've followed everything else in the
instructions on the page I listed though. ath_pci is blacklisted, and
ath5k is loaded.
>
> Osamu
>
>
Autumn
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