[Hardy Alpha 6] - Restricted (Hardware) Driver stopped working

[arekkusu]

Installed hardy alpha 6. I had the wireless driver (atheros) and binary ati driver that I enabled working.

For some reason those 2 driver don't load anymore. Also in "Hardware drivers" they don't appear anymore.

I am not sure at what exact point this happened (a system update seems the most likely to me).

BTW I am also reporting a USB problem (which I believe is unrelated) on the same machine. (will fill another bug report)

[thompa (thom-tendata)]

This effects all acers with this type of atheros also Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01). I am running 2.6.24-11 with no problems.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

I just want to claify some things. Is it that the ubuntu kernel 2.6.24-11 works but 2.6.24-12 is where you have issues? Per the kernel team's bug policy, can you please attach the following information when running the 2.6.24-12 kernel? Please be sure to attach each file as a separate attachment (not tarred or zipped).

* cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
* dmesg > dmesg.log
* sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log

arekkusu, you don't need to reattach your lspci output. For more information regarding the kernel team bug policy, please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies . Thanks again and we appreciate your help and feedback.

[tippettm (tippettm)]

arekkusu,

Please see bug #202453 regarding atheros+network-manager problems, there was a change in network-manager that broke atheros access. If you can't manually configure using iwconfig you may have a different problem. I am using Ubuntu 2.6.24-12.22-generic with atheros and fglrx.

[thompa (thom-tendata)]

for ubuntu 2.6.24-12.22-generic here is
note:sudo modprobe is no longer working with TAB function. I can sudo -s and get it though.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Sorry I jumped a bit too fast on this one when marking as a duplicate.

For the record,

dmesg indicates:
[ 39.193033] MadWifi: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)

lspci detailed output has:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device [1468:0428]

[Peter Hoeg (peterhoeg)]

I get the same "Hardware revision not support' error with the same network card on 2.6.24-16-generic.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

arekkusu, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Hardy desktop reached EOL on May 12, 2011.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue on a supported release? If so, can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in a supported release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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