[Debian-eeepc-devel] wifi and squeeze

[Vincent Hobeika]

Hi,

First, I would like to thank all the people who wrote the documentation on
the wiki. It is a very good source of information.

I managed to install a debian squeeze on my eeepc 1000HA.

It runs quite well. I have a problem though with the wifi device. I cannot
figure how to make it work.

The following page http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1000HA says that
the Atheros card is now supported with the squeeze kernel.

I have checked and it seems I have an Atheros card:

$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory
Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME
Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High
Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express
Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express
Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express
Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI
Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
[8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family)
SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications
AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet [1969:1026] (rev b0)

Well as you can see (last line) there is an Atheros device. The strange
thing is that only the ethernet controller shows up. Moreover the wifi is
working like a charm with the Windows XP shipped with the eeepc. So there
must be a wireless controller somewhere. Maybe it's simply the full name of
the device that has changed but I doubt that because I don't see any AR5001
in this output and I believe it's the part number of the wireless
controller.

I have installed wicd and the client doesn't find any wireless connection
while I know there are dozen where I am. It successfully shows the actual
wired connection I am using right now.

Here is my interfaces file:
$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

some more informations :
$ uname -a
Linux sigmund 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Jul 24 02:27:10 UTC 2010 i686
GNU/Linux

the /proc/cpuinfo is the same as the one of the 1000HA wiki page.

Any hint is welcome, thank you for reading so far. I hope I have posted this
on the right mailing list.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards.
-- 
Vincent
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