[tlinux-users:08735] Re: atheros ar5700eg toshiba a215-s4767 on ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) problem

"Alejandro Tomsic" <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:57:59 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.toshiba
Message-ID <[email protected]>
no, i don't, i tryed it but nothing happened...
i am trying to make it work using ndiswrapper drivers... but i don't know if
i'll succeed.


2007/12/12, John Randles <[email protected]>:
>
>  do you have madwifi installed ?
>
> rpm -qv madwifi
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:23:54 -0300
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: [tlinux-users:08731] atheros ar5700eg toshiba a215-s4767 on
> ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) problem
> To: [email protected]
>
> hi, this is my first time here.
> i have the following problem: atheros ar5007eg  wireless doesn't work on
> my toshiba satellite a215-s4767.
> in theory, gutsy detects it as an 5006eg pci card and installs restricted
> drivers for atheros HAL.
> i have another partition running windows vista and it works fine. has this
> problem been already solved?
> please help!
>
> here is the result of an ifconfig:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:38:10:79:A0
>           inet addr: 192.168.42.100  Bcast:192.168.42.255  Mask:
> 255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::21b:38ff:fe10:79a0/64 Scope:Link
>           UP DIFUSIÓN CORRIENDO MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:4091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:4182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           colisiones:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:3310100 (3.1 MB)  TX bytes:1092936 ( 1.0 MB)
>           Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc000
>
> lo        Link encap:Bucle local
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK CORRIENDO  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           colisiones:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> as you can see, there is no wlan card...
>
>
> here is a list of an lsmod:
>
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ipv6                  317192  10
> nls_iso8859_1           6528  1
> nls_cp437               8192  1
> vfat                   16128  1
> fat                    60208  1 vfat
> fglrx                 765588  11
> af_packet              28172  2
> rfcomm                 47656  2
> l2cap                  28672  11 rfcomm
> bluetooth              63876  4 rfcomm,l2cap
> ppdev                  11272  0
> powernow_k8            16608  1
> cpufreq_userspace       6048  0
> cpufreq_conservative     9608  0
> cpufreq_powersave       3072  0
> cpufreq_stats           8160  0
> cpufreq_ondemand       10896  1
> freq_table              6464  3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
> sbs                    21520  0
> dock                   12264  0
> button                 10400  0
> ac                      7304  0
> container               6400  0
> video                  21140  0
> battery                12424  0
> sbp2                   27144  0
> parport_pc             41896  0
> lp                     15048  0
> parport                44172  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
> mspro_block            22536  2
> ms_block               29704  0
> tifm_ms                10884  0
> memstick               16520  3 mspro_block,ms_block,tifm_ms
> snd_hda_intel         337192  1
> snd_pcm_oss            50048  0
> pcmcia                 46232  0
> snd_mixer_oss          20096  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                94344  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_dummy           5380  0
> snd_seq_oss            36864  0
> uvcvideo               52228  0
> snd_seq_midi           11008  0
> compat_ioctl32         11136  1 uvcvideo
> videodev               31360  1 uvcvideo
> v4l1_compat            15364  2 uvcvideo,videodev
> i2c_piix4              11020  0
> tifm_7xx1              10112  0
> v4l2_common            21888  3 uvcvideo,compat_ioctl32,videodev
> sdhci                  21004  0
> tifm_core              13832  2 tifm_ms,tifm_7xx1
> i2c_core               30208  1 i2c_piix4
> mmc_core               33416  1 sdhci
> yenta_socket           30220  1
> rsrc_nonstatic         14208  1 yenta_socket
> pcmcia_core            46628  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
> pcspkr                  4608  0
> snd_rawmidi            29824  1 snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq_midi_event      9984  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> ath_pci               105392  0
> wlan                  225736  1 ath_pci
> ath_hal               219888  1 ath_pci
> serio_raw               9092  0
> psmouse                45596  0
> k8temp                  7680  0
> xpad                   11400  0
> snd_seq                62496  6
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_timer              27272  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device         10260  5
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> snd                    69288  11
> snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
>
> soundcore              10272  1 snd
> snd_page_alloc         12560  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> shpchp                 38300  0
> pci_hotplug            36612  1 shpchp
> evdev                  13056  7
> joydev                 13440  0
> ext3                  146576  1
> jbd                    69360  1 ext3
> mbcache                11272  1 ext3
> sg                     41384  0
> ide_cd                 35488  0
> cdrom                  41768  1 ide_cd
> sd_mod                 32512  3
> ata_generic             9988  0
> usbhid                 32576  0
> hid                    33408  1 usbhid
> ehci_hcd               40076  0
> ohci1394               38984  0
> ieee1394              109528  2 sbp2,ohci1394
> atiixp                  7824  0 [permanent]
> ide_core              141200  2 ide_cd,atiixp
> r8169                  36100  0
> ahci                   27012  2
> libata                138928  2 ata_generic,ahci
> scsi_mod              172856  4 sbp2,sg,sd_mod,libata
> ohci_hcd               25092  0
> usbcore               161584  6 uvcvideo,xpad,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
> thermal                16528  0
> processor              36232  2 powernow_k8,thermal
> fan                     6920  0
> fuse                   52528  1
> apparmor               47008  0
> commoncap               9472  1 apparmor
>
>
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