Bug 448651

Summary: Cannot initialize Atheros wireless device.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: CatalystParadox <howard.ju>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 9CC: dcbw, nhorman
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OS: Linux   
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Description CatalystParadox 2008-05-28 03:11:50 UTC
Description of problem:  
Fedora is unable to initialize wireless adapter - 
"03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)"

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 137a

	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19

	Memory at f6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]

	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

	Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-

	Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00

	Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1

	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>

	Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>

	Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k

"Modprobe -c ath5k" returns - 

May 27 18:32:34 localhost ntfs-3g[2869]: Cmdline options:
rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,locale=en_US.UTF-8

May 27 18:32:34 localhost ntfs-3g[2869]: Mount options:
rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,silent,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sda1,blkdev,blksize=4096

May 27 18:32:34 localhost hald: mounted /dev/sda1 on behalf of uid 0

May 27 18:33:17 localhost kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I
recognize!

May 27 18:33:41 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)

May 27 18:33:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link
[LK4E] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19

May 27 18:33:41 localhost kernel: ath5k_pci 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'

May 27 18:33:42 localhost kernel: ath5k phy0: failed to wakeup the MAC Chip

May 27 18:33:42 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:00.0
disabled

May 27 18:33:42 localhost kernel: ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with
error -5



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Comment 1 John W. Linville 2008-05-28 12:57:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254192 ***