Atheros wireless driver not working in Feisty

[Romano Giannetti]

I have bought a new toshiba laptop, U305 S5077. Wifi is not working;
I tried the normal modules, then to recompile the madwifi stable, and then the madwifi svn snaphshot.

All I get is:

Jul 27 21:25:57 rukbat kernel: [53273.040000] ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133)
Jul 27 21:25:57 rukbat kernel: [53273.052000] wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn r2619)
Jul 27 21:25:57 rukbat kernel: [53273.056000] ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r2619)
Jul 27 21:25:57 rukbat kernel: [53273.056000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
Jul 27 21:25:57 rukbat kernel: [53273.056000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64
Jul 27 21:25:57 rukbat kernel: [53273.060000] MadWifi: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3)
Jul 27 21:25:57 rukbat kernel: [53273.060000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled

lspci -v:
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Unknown device 7128
        Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19
        Memory at 50200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

Can anyone help me? Thanks

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

Ok, seems that we have to wait for a new hal release...

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1472

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1192

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

As an option, you can always use ndiswrapper: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
with the drivers from: http://www.atheros.cz/

I used the AR5008 XP 32 bit drivers for my toshiba U305 and they works, provided that you never try to load the madwifi drivers (i.e., you have to blacklist them by adding "blacklist ath_pci" and "blacklist ath_hal" in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist).

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

The 18 month support period for Feisty Fawn 7.04 has reached its end of life some months ago.
As a result, we are closing the linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 task.
It would be helpful if you could test the new Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 release
and confirm if this issue remains - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview.
If the issue still exists with the Jaunty release, please update this report by changing
the Status of the "linux (Ubuntu)" task from "Incomplete" to "New". Thanks in advance!

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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