Atheros AR5008, Can't get it working

azkay · 2012-02-22 02:08:19

I have it in the mpcie slot.
The other slot has an intel wireless card, which works.
The slot with the Atheros card, I havn't been able to get working.

What do I do?

ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:68:0f:ed:e1  
          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:20 Memory:f2700000-f2720000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1344 (1.3 KiB)  TX bytes:1344 (1.3 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:fb:92:0a:52  
          inet addr:192.168.0.19  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:fbff:fe92:a52/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:6066933 (5.7 MiB)  TX bytes:494554 (482.9 KiB)

iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"OptusCD3_f4cde2"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.472 GHz  Access Point: 70:71:BC:37:68:6E   
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=60/70  Signal level=-50 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

lspci | grep Atheros

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

hwinfo --netcards

11: PCI 19.0: 0200 Ethernet controller                          
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_10f5
  Unique ID: rBUF.RfSKF6taKG8
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:19.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x10f5 "82567LM Gigabit Network Connection"
  SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
  SubDevice: pci 0x20ee 
  Revision: 0x03
  Driver: "e1000e"
  Driver Modules: "e1000e"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xf2700000-0xf271ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf2725000-0xf2725fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x1840-0x185f (rw)
  IRQ: 46 (258 events)
  HW Address: 00:22:68:0f:ed:e1
  Link detected: no
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000010F5sv000017AAsd000020EEbc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: e1000e is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe e1000e"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

29: PCI 200.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_ff1c
  Unique ID: B35A.gTGBptSwx+6
  Parent ID: z8Q3.q9yrMRbmJSF
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter"
  Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
  Device: pci 0xff1c "AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter"
  Revision: 0x01
  Memory Range: 0xf2500000-0xf250ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 11 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd0000FF1Csv00000000sd00000000bc02sc00i00"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge)

30: PCI 300.0: 0282 WLAN controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4237
  Unique ID: y9sn.voK_S6N2Wy6
  Parent ID: qTvu.s_qLKaqAND0
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Intel PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x4237 "PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection"
  SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  SubDevice: pci 0x1311 
  Driver: "iwlagn"
  Driver Modules: "iwlagn"
  Device File: wlan0
  Features: WLAN
  Memory Range: 0xf2600000-0xf2601fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 48 (17928 events)
  HW Address: 00:22:fb:92:0a:52
  Link detected: yes
  WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140
  WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 5.18 5.2 5.22 5.24 5.26 5.28 5.3 5.32 5.5 5.52 5.54 5.56 5.58 5.6 5.62 5.64 5.66 5.68 5.7
  WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
  WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00004237sv00008086sd00001311bc02sc80i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: iwlagn is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe iwlagn"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #18 (PCI bridge)

Last edited by azkay (2012-02-22 02:09:52)

xaos52 · 2012-02-22 09:31:32

You are probably missing the firmware package:

sudo apt-get install firmware-atheros

azkay · 2012-02-22 12:56:28

I have that too.

xaos52 · 2012-02-22 14:26:24

There is no driver loaded for your atheros card.
Post output of

uname -a
dmesg|grep -E -i 'ath|wlan'
lspci -knn

I cannot find any kernel module that loads device id ff1c - that is probably why no driver gets loaded - Is this on old card?

Edit: found this in ath9k-dev mailing list:

Even assuming the card is bust, there are two atheros device IDs - ff1c
and ff1d - that designate AR5008 cards (according to pci.ids and google)
and that are not supported by any driver currently.

Here is the starting thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel … 03918.html

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-02-22 14:39:19)

azkay · 2012-02-23 07:43:29

Thanks ebay for selling me useless cards.

Thanks xaos for finding that, now I can stop trying to get it working.

null_ego · 2012-02-23 07:52:01

Is this a newer card? If so what kernel version are you running? If it is less than 2.6.38 try upgrading your kernel.

azkay · 2012-02-24 07:04:29

I'm on 2.6.36, what would one do to upgrade to 38?

xaos52 · 2012-02-24 09:35:41

Lots of cards are branded AR5008. Whats important is the vendor-id:product-id tuple you find in the output of 'lspci -knn'. And yours is not in any Debian kernel I have seen since 2.6.32.

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-02-24 09:36:38)

azkay · 2012-03-13 04:00:49

So I bought another one and I can't get it working either.

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0024] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:0033]

If I have both the atheros and the intel card in, neither card works.
If I rmmod ath9k, the intel card starts working again, if I modprobe ath9k the intel stops.

rfkill list shows:

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

If I turn the wifi switch off, soft blocked changes to yes but hard blocked never changes.
I've spend the last 3 hours googling and trying lots of different "solutions", all the solutions that solved the problem for other people don't work for me.

EDIT::

I finally fixed it.
I had tried sitting it in the primary half mpcie slot, just hanging out (couldn't screw it down as the slot is for half size cards), then I tried booting it. I was greeted with an "Unauthorised wireless network card" error, which brought me to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w … twork_card

I then tried "Another safer method: you can plug the wireless card into the spare WWAN slot (the second miniPCI express slot) with pin-20 taped over.", booted up into Crunchbang and it worked right away. Connected to my network and all. 25mbps without the antenna plugged in.

Last edited by azkay (2012-03-13 04:23:43)

xaos52 · 2012-03-13 09:04:21

Thanks for the feedback. smile

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