Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 442220
Atheros AR5007 misrecognized, not configured: 802.11 wireless on Compaq A916NR
Last modified: 2008-04-18 00:44:24 EDT
Description of problem: The Atheros AR5007 wireless adapter is (1) misrecognized by lspci|grep Atheros 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) (2) not configured: ifconfig reports only eth0 and lo. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Hardware: Compaq Presario A916NR Notebook PC Software: 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:48:34 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux How reproducible: Always. It appears there is conflicting and complicated advice online about how to get this working. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot 2. Find no wireless working 3. Actual results: Expected results: adapter correctly recognized, Wireless networking functional Additional info: Merely getting the adapter correctly recognized would probably be a helpful step to sorting out the problem.
-> kernel since it's a driver issue; PCI-E support in ath5k is still pretty new but I thought it should have worked on at least a few machines...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254192 ***
(In reply to comment #0) > Software: 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 The latest F8 update kernel is kernel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8. Reporting ath5k issues for significantly older versions as is your case is meaningless.
Dear Joachim, Exactly same behavior is found with the kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 #1 SMP so the report is not meaningless.