Greets, all.
I have a Compaq Presario F761us, running 8.04_64bit. As the vendor is playing possum on the issue I brought to them (they say they only support vista and xp, which is ridiculous because they sell computers with linux, but whatever)... So using their xp64 drivers for the chipset, I'm able to connect without problems until the computer is restarted.
After kde is loaded, knetworkmanager comes up and chokes at 28% ("Activation stage: Configuring device.")
'sudo lspci -v' gives me:
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: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at f6000000 (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 IRQ 0
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
'ifconfig wlan0' gives me:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr (blip, blop, blouey)
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:19 Memory:f6000000-f6010000
'sudo iwlist wlan0 scan' gives me:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: (blip, blop, blouey)
ESSID:"MiniMe"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:64/100 Signal level:-55 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
In order to get it working again, I have to remove the windows driver and reinstall it again. After that, everything works fine... (Until the next reboot) This is really getting old.
There's got to be something I'm missing here. HAL won't touch it if I've appended 'blacklist ath_pci' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, correct? Do I need to do something more to keep it from interfering (HAL is the only logical suspect I can think of, but I really don't understand enough about it to prove/disprove)?
If someone out there has run across anything like this, plz let me know before I scrap this piece of junk for parts.
Thanks.
Mike
PS. I recently read somewhere that HP has set the BIOS up on this model so that if I were to replace this wifi card with an "inferior" one, the computer won't boot. Is that even legal for them to do? If this is truly the case (which I'll know shortly), can I force them to give me a BIOS upgrade without the vendor lock-outs? That just doesn't appear as an ethical practice to me.
I have a Compaq Presario F761us, running 8.04_64bit. As the vendor is playing possum on the issue I brought to them (they say they only support vista and xp, which is ridiculous because they sell computers with linux, but whatever)... So using their xp64 drivers for the chipset, I'm able to connect without problems until the computer is restarted.
After kde is loaded, knetworkmanager comes up and chokes at 28% ("Activation stage: Configuring device.")
'sudo lspci -v' gives me:
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: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at f6000000 (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 IRQ 0
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
'ifconfig wlan0' gives me:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr (blip, blop, blouey)
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:19 Memory:f6000000-f6010000
'sudo iwlist wlan0 scan' gives me:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: (blip, blop, blouey)
ESSID:"MiniMe"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:64/100 Signal level:-55 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
In order to get it working again, I have to remove the windows driver and reinstall it again. After that, everything works fine... (Until the next reboot) This is really getting old.
There's got to be something I'm missing here. HAL won't touch it if I've appended 'blacklist ath_pci' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, correct? Do I need to do something more to keep it from interfering (HAL is the only logical suspect I can think of, but I really don't understand enough about it to prove/disprove)?
If someone out there has run across anything like this, plz let me know before I scrap this piece of junk for parts.
Thanks.
Mike
PS. I recently read somewhere that HP has set the BIOS up on this model so that if I were to replace this wifi card with an "inferior" one, the computer won't boot. Is that even legal for them to do? If this is truly the case (which I'll know shortly), can I force them to give me a BIOS upgrade without the vendor lock-outs? That just doesn't appear as an ethical practice to me.
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