Description of problem: Atheros AR5006EG adapter is not working on any kernels released for FC8 since official release, it had been working on FC6 using legacy madwifi driver ath_pci. Tried on BenQ P52EG notebook. 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 1a32:0100 Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 22 Memory at c0300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [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 Kernel modules: ath5k In dmesg you can see: PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64 ath5k_pci 0000:05:00.0: registered as 'phy1' ath5k phy1: failed to wakeup the MAC Chip ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:00.0 disabled ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -5 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tried on kernel-2.6.23.14-115.fc8.i686 and kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.i686 How reproducible: Always, just use BenQ laptop with this adapter and try to run wireless. Actual results: Errors in dmesg and no wireless interface Expected results: Wireless adapter interface and working wireless connection Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254192 ***