| Summary: | Problems activating wireless network in NetworkManager (ath-9k) | |||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Kent Kristensen <kent.osgeek> | |
| Component: | NetworkManager | Assignee: | Dan Williams <dcbw> | |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | unspecified | |||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | dcbw, jklimes | |
| Target Milestone: | --- | |||
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | |||
| OS: | Unspecified | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 737296 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-05-26 06:44:20 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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Description
Kent Kristensen
2011-05-13 13:11:44 UTC
It could be an issue with ath9k driver or with a platform driver blocking the WiFi. Please could you report the following pieces of information: 1. your laptop type 2. lspci -vv | grep -B 12 ath9k 3. rfkill list 4. rpm -q kernel 5. nm-tool Sorry for the late reply.
It seems to be related to the networkmanager or some configuration I havent used previous. Anyway; here is the the answer/output:
1. your laptop type
Acer Aspire Timeline 58020TG
2. lspci -vv | grep -B 12 ath9k
lspci -vv | grep -B 12 ath9k
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: atl1c
Kernel modules: atl1c
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e01f
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at ca000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k
3. rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
4. rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64
kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64
5. nm-tool
NetworkManager Tool
State: connected (global)
- Device: em1 [Wired connection 1] --------------------------------------------
Type: Wired
Driver: atl1c
State: connected
Default: yes
HW Address: C8:0A:A9:65:54:C3
Capabilities:
Carrier Detect: yes
Speed: 100 Mb/s
Wired Properties
Carrier: on
IPv4 Settings:
Address: 192.168.0.103
Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0)
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS: 192.168.0.1
- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
Type: 802.11 WiFi
Driver: ath9k
State: unavailable
Default: no
HW Address: 78:E4:00:1A:50:AF
Capabilities:
Wireless Properties
WEP Encryption: yes
WPA Encryption: yes
WPA2 Encryption: yes
Wireless Access Points
The problem is platform driver 'acer-wireless' which blocks the wireless. Either it doesn't behave or you should activate the wireless pressing a key-combination. Removing the driver should help: # rmmod acer-wmi See also bug 658003. The ath9k works fine with my gentoo and win7 partition. It also worked fine in Fedora 14. #rmmod acer-wmi worked! Thanks! as temp solution I blacklisted the acer-wmi (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf) The problem seems to be fixed :) |