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Determine if it is the AR5007EG card¶

Running lspci will, on a 32 bit system, show the card as AR5006EG. If you haven't uninstalled Windows, you can check with its Device Manager, which will show the card to be the AR5007EG. On my Acer 4720z, there is a sticker on the bottom, apparently present in most Acers, saying that it has AR5BXB63. With 2.6.24.x kernels, lscpi may identify it as AR242x 802.11 abg. Running the command lspci -nn should show, however a vendor ID of 168c:001c. On Fedora, use /sbin/lspci -nn.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2008/02/26/ubuntu-hardy-heron-alpha-acer-aspire-4320.html

john@throy:~$ dmesg | egrep -i '(ath|wifi)'
[   24.155741] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[   24.273315] ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[   24.617856] ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.3)
[   24.666510] wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)

nakon instalacija madwifi 0.9.4

[   39.557437] ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[   39.822193] ath_pci: 0.9.4
[   39.850513] wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)

korisno je znati

hernad@nmraka-1:~$ cat /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

# This file is sourced from the linux-restricted-modules-common init
# script and is used to disable the link-on-boot feature, one module
# at a time.  This can be useful if you want to use hand-compiled
# versions of one or more modules, but keep linux-restricted-modules
# installed on your system, or just to disable modules you don't use
# and speed up your boot process by a second or two.
#
# Use a space-separated list of modules you wish to not have linked
# on boot.  The following example shows a (condensed) list of all
# modules shipped in the linux-restricted-modules packages:
#
# DISABLED_MODULES="ath_hal fc fglrx ltm nv" 
#
# Note that disabling "fc" disables all fcdsl drivers, "ltm" disables
# ltmodem and ltserial, and "nv" disables the three nvidia drivers.
# You can also name each module individually, if you prefer a subset.

DISABLED_MODULES="" 

pokupio sam madwifi trunk da vidim da li je u trunk-u podržan moj device:

root@stor-34:/data/hg/madwifi/trunk# hg commit -m svn.3412

root@stor-34:/data/hg/madwifi/trunk/ath# grep 001c *

if_ath_pci.c:    { 0x168c, 0x001c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID }, /* PCI Express 5424 */

ali ne kontam i u 0.9.4 našao sam: ??!

adwifi/madwifi-0.9.4/ath$ grep 001c *

if_ath_pci.c:    { 0x168c, 0x001c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID }, /* PCI Express 5424 */

adwifi/madwifi-0.9.4$ cat hal/ah_devid.h | grep 001c

#define AR5212_AR5424        0x001c          /* Condor (PCI express) */

/* AR5212 compatible devid's also attach to 5212 */

#define AR5212_DEVID_0014       0x0014
#define AR5212_DEVID_0015       0x0015
#define AR5212_DEVID_0016       0x0016
#define AR5212_DEVID_0017       0x0017
#define AR5212_DEVID_0018       0x0018
#define AR5212_DEVID_0019       0x0019
#define AR5212_AR2413           0x001a          /* AR2413 aka Griffin-lite */
#define AR5212_AR5413           0x001b          /* Eagle */
#define AR5212_AR5424           0x001c          /* Condor (PCI express) */
#define AR5212_DEVID_FF19       0xff19          /* XXX PCI express */

hernad@nmraka-1:~/devel/ubuntu/hardy/hal-0.5.11~rc2$ modinfo /lib/modules/2.6.24-12-generic/madwifi/ath_pci.ko | grep -i 001c

alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1192

Support for AR2425 (AR5007EG) chipset

Na ovom posljednjem ticketu postoji patch ali samo ako se radi o 32-bitnom OS-u, 64-bit os ne radi :(

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k

šta je trebam ovdje da uradim ???