ath5k driver on Jaunty Alpha1
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Tim Gardner |
Bug Description
Distro: Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha1
Hardware: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
I just updated Jaunty Alpha1 on an eeepc (2g surf 701) and realized that I lost wireless support. In 8.10 I had to install the linux-backports
As of this date, there is no package named linux-backports
$ uname -r
2.6.28-2-generic
$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-backports
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package linux-backports
When I go the the Hardware Drivers utility (System > Administration > Hardware Drivers) I get the following message: "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system."
I have tried activating the driver and rebooting but nothing happens, jockey reverts back to having the driver de-activated.
How can I get the ath5k driver installed on Jaunty?
My initial suspicion is that madwifi attempts to initialize the RF MAC, fails, and leaves the HW in a state that the ath5k driver cannot recover from when next it is loaded. The proposed solution is to remove madwifi from Jaunty LRM and make it a DKMS package.