Re: ath5k problem with 2.6.35

From: Thomas Fjellstrom
Date: Sun Aug 22 2010 - 04:00:49 EST


On August 22, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> Hi, I'm running 2.6.35, and my wireless card fails to initialize properly
> on boot. I get the following messages in dmesg:

Probably important, but I missed a couple lines:

> [ 0.866525] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ
> 17 [ 0.866536] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [ 0.866571] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> [ 1.358241] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x67
> [ 1.358242] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
> [ 1.358245] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
> [ 1.358247] ath: Regpair used: 0x67
[ 1.360589] phy0: Failed to initialize wep: -2
> [ 1.372021] ath5k phy0: can't register ieee80211 hw
> [ 1.372080] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> [ 1.372084] ath5k: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -2
>
> That said, if I remove the ath5k module, and modprobe ath5k, it starts
> working.
>
> [ 2976.411770] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ
> 17 [ 2976.411783] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [ 2976.412767] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy1'
> [ 2976.912422] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x67
> [ 2976.912424] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
> [ 2976.912427] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
> [ 2976.912429] ath: Regpair used: 0x67
[ 2977.078747] phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
> [ 2977.079190] ath5k phy1: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
>
> Is this a known issue?

Thanks

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