[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#500187: wireless-key does not work on eeePC 900A

[Federico Castagnini]

Hi!

I was in the same problem after an update some days ago.

I make many changes triying to bringh the ahteros work again, but i
cant remember the exact comands :(

all the instruction i use where found in the wiki
(http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC) in several pages.

i think some of the steps of the solution was:

echo "pciehp" >> /etc/modules
echo "options pciehp pciehp_force=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/pciehp
m-a m-i madwifi or madwifi-source

then reboot

Regards/Saludos!
Fede


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:46 AM, InSa <insa_hc at yahoo.it> wrote:
> Sorry, I did not give you all info. I have an eeepc 900 and I am using
> current sid with 2.6.26-1-686 kernel.
>
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:03:44 +0300
> Damyan Ivanov <dam at modsoftsys.com> wrote:
>
>> The "HAL status 3" error rings a bell from the past. Please verify
>> that
>>
>>  * you have ath5k blacklisted (and initrds updated)
>
> ath5k is already blacklisted.
>
>>  * you use the madwifi-source package from sid and build the kernel
>>    module package from it with m-a
>
> I have purged every madwifi* packages and reinstalled madwifi with "m-a a-i
> madwifi" but wifi still does not work.
>
>> Hmm. Perhaps another sleep is needed *before* the modprobe in the
>> Atheros case? (that's in /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh)
>
> I am not sure that is the problem. With wifi disabled and every ath*
> module unloaded if I run "modprobe ath_pci" kernel.log reports the same error:
>
> ------------
> Sep 26 11:35:27 cheyenne kernel: [  915.791869] AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
> Sep 26 11:35:27 cheyenne kernel: [  915.808337] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> Sep 26 11:35:27 cheyenne kernel: [  915.812512] MadWifi: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3)
> Sep 26 11:35:27 cheyenne kernel: [  915.812533] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:00.0 disabled
> ------------
>
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