[Debian-eeepc-devel] eee 900 wifi problems

[Sergio Blanco]

Hello again!

I have tried quite a lot of things and I ended up confused with what I
already I have done and what I haven't, so I'm trying another reinstall and
see what I can do.

I tried the latest madwifi form source and the ath5k upgrading the kernel,
still can't scan. I tried a livecd of eeexubuntu to see if the wifi card was
broken but there it worked flawlessly.

Depending on how I inserted the modules there were times wifi shuted off
seconds after I bring it up. The most I got is what i mailed yesterday, I
have the ath0 up but it won't scan nor connect.

If it is useful, I have tried the 3 installer images and none of them have
my wifi card working! Is that normal?

Thanks!!!

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> wrote:

> -=| Federico Castagnini, Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:20:48AM -0200 |=-
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Sergio Blanco <crimsomshadow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > The problem has come some days ago. I read the new kernel was
> > > ready so I
> > > could update. When I did so, wifi stopped working, no matter what I
> did.
> > > Then I tried a reinstall and got wifi to work ensuring pciehp was being
> > > loaded. But one day later it just stopped working again. Tonight I did
> the
> > > third reinstall and I can´t get wifi to work, no matter what I do. I
> see the
> > > ath0 interface and can bring it up and down, but I can´t scan for APs.
> I
> > > already tried uninstalling the madwifi binaries and compiling the
> sources,
> > > but it remains the same.
> >
> > i am thinking to try the ath5k driver:
> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/UseLastAtherosModule, but
> > dont know if it would work.
>
> Or, blacklist ath5k so that it doesn't interfere with the madwifi one.
> (don't forget to un-blacklist it when you decide to repplace madwifi
> with ath5k).
>
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