Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:60354 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751113Ab2GZFEP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:04:15 -0400 Received: by yenl2 with SMTP id l2so1546592yen.19 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:04:15 -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 10:34:14 +0530 Message-ID: (sfid-20120726_070419_374156_307006DE) 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 10:31 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. > 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