Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:56676 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751067Ab2GZFRv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:17:51 -0400 Received: by obbuo13 with SMTP id uo13so2169735obb.19 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:17:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <501030E9.3090707@lwfinger.net> <50103BE8.1020203@lwfinger.net> <501061C8.5010108@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:47:48 +0530 Message-ID: (sfid-20120726_071802_630542_26D71F6B) Subject: Re: New Laptop and Driver From: Mohammed Shafi To: Tim and Alison Bentley Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= , Larry Finger , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Mohammed Shafi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Tim and Alison Bentley > wrote: >> On 26 July 2012 02:25, G?bor Stefanik wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Larry Finger >>> wrote: >>>> On 07/25/2012 01:54 PM, Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 25 July 2012 19:33, Larry Finger wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 07/25/2012 01:00 PM, Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device >>>>>>> [10de:0de9] (rev a1) >>>>>>> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device >>>>>>> [168c:0037] (rev 01) >>>>>>> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. >>>>>>> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev >>>>>>> 07) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> The Realtek device is the one used for your wired network. >>>>>> >>>>>> The Atheros device is not in the tables for the latest version of any >>>>>> wireless driver. Perhaps it will work if you do the following: >>>>>> >>>>>> su - >>>>>> modprobe -v ath9k >>>>>> echo "168c 0037" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ath9k/new_id >>>>>> exit >>>>>> >>>>>> The above will work if the driver handles the device, but it is not yet >>>>>> in >>>>>> the tables. Perhaps the Atheros developers will know the status of that >>>>>> device. >>>>>> >>>>>> When replying to E-mail in this list, and most other technical mailing >>>>>> lists, please do not top post. Always put your answer below the quoted >>>>>> material as I did here. >>>>>> >>>>>> Larry >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Sorry for top posting, bad habbit >>>>> No luck with the suggestion and I tried a reboot for luck with no success. >>>> >>>> >>>> The effect of those commands would have disappeared after a reboot. One last >>>> thing to do is to check /var/log/messages to see if it complained about >>>> missing firmware after you entered the new_id. There should be some kind of >>>> error messages at that point, but it is likely that no Linux driver handles >>>> this device. >>>> >>>> You might try ndiswrapper and the Windows driver, but if the system is >>>> 64-bit, then that might not work either. >>>> >>>> Larry >>> >>> 168c:0037 appears to be a chipset called "AR1111", based on Windows >>> drivers. However, I suspect this is a provisional/placeholder name. >> >> Re ran the commands and have the /var/log/messages output >> >> Jul 26 05:58:23 tigger2 kernel: [ 1546.876477] cfg80211: Calling CRDA >> to update world regulatory domain >> Jul 26 05:58:23 tigger2 kernel: [ 1546.916447] cfg80211: World >> regulatory domain updated: >> Jul 26 05:58:23 tigger2 kernel: [ 1546.916450] cfg80211: (start_freq >> - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) >> Jul 26 05:58:23 tigger2 kernel: [ 1546.916453] cfg80211: (2402000 >> KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) >> Jul 26 05:58:23 tigger2 kernel: [ 1546.916455] cfg80211: (2457000 >> KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) >> Jul 26 05:58:23 tigger2 kernel: [ 1546.916457] cfg80211: (2474000 >> KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) >> Jul 26 05:58:23 tigger2 kernel: [ 1546.916459] cfg80211: (5170000 >> KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) >> Jul 26 05:58:23 tigger2 kernel: [ 1546.916461] cfg80211: (5735000 >> KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) >> Jul 26 05:58:30 tigger2 kernel: [ 1553.767939] ath: phy0: Hardware >> device ID 0x0037 not supported > > it wasn't there in the device ID table in pci.c of ath9k, lets see > this chip is actually > has h/w code support in ath9k. yes indeed its AR1111, seems like a AR9485 chip. > > >> Jul 26 05:58:30 tigger2 kernel: [ 1553.767948] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: >> Failed to initialize device >> Jul 26 05:58:30 tigger2 kernel: [ 1553.768137] ath9k: probe of >> 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -95 >> >> >> -- >> Tim and Alison Bentley >> Home@TRARBentley.net >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > -- > thanks, > shafi -- thanks, shafi