[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#687470: base: Wifi Atheros AR9285 not working with Debian Squeeze

Flavio Barros flaviomargarito at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 00:35:58 UTC 2012


Package: base
Severity: important

My wifi card os simple not working at all. Some outputs:

# lcpci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI
Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host
Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio
Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev
b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev
b5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev
b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host
Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI
Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E
PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
07:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network
Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

# lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
ath9k                  76702  0
ath9k_common           12728  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              329880  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
carl9170               71590  0
mac80211              195629  2 ath9k,carl9170
ath                    21306  4 ath9k,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw,carl9170
cfg80211              140318  4 ath9k,carl9170,mac80211,ath
cpufreq_conservative    13147  0
cpufreq_powersave      12454  0
cpufreq_stats          12762  0
cpufreq_userspace      12576  0
parport_pc             22191  0
ppdev                  12725  0
lp                     17190  0
parport                31650  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
bridge                 69831  0
stp                    12392  1 bridge
bnep                   17386  2
rfcomm                 32744  0
bluetooth             122093  10 bnep,rfcomm
crc16                  12343  1 bluetooth
nfsd                  218618  11
lockd                  66785  1 nfsd
nfs_acl                12511  1 nfsd
auth_rpcgss            36848  1 nfsd
sunrpc                175664  12 nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
binfmt_misc            12914  1
uinput                 17392  1
fuse                   61427  1
ext2                   62797  1
loop                   22699  0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     30578  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek   188466  1
snd_hda_intel          26023  3
snd_hda_codec          81579  3
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13148  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss            40662  0
snd_mixer_oss          17905  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                67465  4
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi           12848  0
arc4                   12458  2
snd_rawmidi            22850  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     13316  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                44678  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              22658  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         13155  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
i915                  362150  2
drm_kms_helper         26950  1 i915
snd                    52458  18
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
drm                   167089  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
uvcvideo               57559  0
videodev               70686  1 uvcvideo
media                  18148  2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbhid                 39946  0
acpi_cpufreq           12893  0
soundcore              13014  1 snd
i2c_i801               16870  0
hid                    80937  1 usbhid
v4l2_compat_ioctl32    16663  1 videodev
coretemp               12929  0
crc32c_intel           12704  0
i2c_algo_bit           12834  1 i915
tpm_tis                17315  0
snd_page_alloc         12969  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_core               23766  6
i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,videodev,i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit
tpm                    17841  1 tpm_tis
ghash_clmulni_intel    13061  0
mperf                  12411  1 acpi_cpufreq
tpm_bios               12903  1 tpm
cryptd                 14463  1 ghash_clmulni_intel
evdev                  17512  19
pcspkr                 12579  0
processor              27639  1 acpi_cpufreq
battery                13109  0
psmouse                64191  0
topstar_laptop         12574  0
ac                     12624  0
power_supply           13475  2 battery,ac
button                 12895  1 i915
rfkill                 18970  4 cfg80211,bluetooth
sparse_keymap          12760  1 topstar_laptop
serio_raw              12875  0
video                  17553  1 i915
ext3                  160741  5
jbd                    55645  1 ext3
mbcache                12930  2 ext2,ext3
dm_mod                 63050  18
sg                     25769  0
sr_mod                 21824  0
sd_mod                 35644  3
cdrom                  35134  1 sr_mod
crc_t10dif             12348  1 sd_mod
ahci                   24997  2
libahci                22714  1 ahci
libata                139579  2 ahci,libahci
scsi_mod              161684  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
r8169                  50170  0
mii                    12675  1 r8169
ehci_hcd               39586  0
usbcore               127444  5 carl9170,uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd
thermal                17330  0
thermal_sys            17992  3 processor,video,thermal
usb_common             12354  1 usbcore

# iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on

eth0      no wireless extensions.

# rfkill list

1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: yes

# rfkill unblock all

# rfkill list

1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

.... just soft unblocked.

I tried install the 3.2.0 kernel from backports with the same problem.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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