SR71C in Ubuntu 9.04

[Hector_CH]

Hello,

I've received today an SR71C card, but when I connect it to my Ubuntu 9.04 laptop, it doesn't appear in the list of interfaces and I see the following message:


[1100385.895244] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[1100386.011698] ath_init: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 4294967291
[1100386.011737] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled


If I list my PCI devices, I see it there and apparently there are no problems

03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device 0777:4c05
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 19
Memory at 120000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Kernel modules: ath9k


Does anybody have an idea, why my card isn't working?

[Nexus6]

Hi!

First see ath9k information driver page :
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#ath9k

Try to install the last build (same if you don't see your wireless card or your atheros chipset in ath9k page), every days ath9k is patched, maybe for you..., well today is 2009-06-11 so (in root):

# wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2009-06-11.tar.bz2

Unbzip file :
# tar jxvf compat-wireless-2009-06-11.tar.bz2

Change dir :
# cd compat-wireless-2009-06-11

Compile :
# make

Install
# make install

If your are missing package during the compilation, search it with aptitude :
# aptitude search libnlx*

regards,

/Nexus6

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[Hector_CH]

Hi Nexus6, thanks for your reply

I did what you suggested, but still same problem, the only difference is that the error message disapeared

[ 877.129278] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
[ 877.129362] pci 0000:03:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x00ffff]
[ 877.129468] pci 0000:03:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot
[ 877.129478] pci 0000:03:00.0: PME# disabled
[ 877.132092] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 877.132109] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 877.248551] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled


Any other idea or should be trying this procedure every day?

Thanks

[Hector_CH]

Anyone?

Why do you announce then that this card has support for Linux when in fact it doesn't work under such OS? :x

[brtw2003]

..the neverending story.

Hi devel-team,

I really look foward to get finally my SR71-C working under linux, currently I've purchased
again my good old school Alfa cards and the previous ubiquiti abg.

I've played now several times and still not working, even with brand new madwifi-ng
drivers and latest kernel 2.6.30.3

Here are my details about this *challenge*
http://pastebin.com/m5de0495b

I've also contacted the kernel developers, keep you guys posted!

THX & look forward that you spent more time on driver development for the latest
atheros chipset, I'm a huge fan of ubiquiti and would be a shame to move to a
different brand ;-)

brtw2003

[Hector_CH]

It's been three months now since I posted my initial problem. I've tried many, many times the procedure that Nexus6 proposed and still no luck, my brand new SR71-C card is just a decoration gadget sitting on my desk.

Question still unanswered:

Why do you announce then that this card has support for Linux when in fact it doesn't work under such OS?

Maybe the wording of my question wasn't right, so I'll try again:

Don't you think that saying that this card works under Linux when in fact it only works under Windows is some sort of false advertising?