Wireless solved (was: Busted Gutsy upgrade on Thinkpad T60p)

[Bill Moseley]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:33:53AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> This is on a Lenovo T60p.
> 
> 
> Wireless is no longer detected.
> -------------------------------
> 
> If I boot with my old 2.6.20-16-generic  kernel I see in dmesg:
> 
>     [   18.552000] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> 
> plus all the wlan-specific loading.
> 
> With Gutsy I see nothing related to wireless.  Do I need to
> specifically load the ath_pci module now?  Tried modprobe and it
> didn't seem to load the wireless extensions.

Since no wireless extensions were loaded with the new 2.6.22-14-generic
kernel (including trying to manually load # modeprobe ath_pci) assumed
it must have been the madwif drivers included with Gutsty.

Building madwifi from svn resolved the problem.

Apparently, I was not using the stock Feisty madwifi modules, and the
changes I had were also not included in Gutsy.


Note, when buidling from source make sure that you set this:

    $ fgrep ath_hal /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
    # DISABLED_MODULES="ath_hal fc fglrx ltm nv"
    DISABLED_MODULES="ath_hal"

To prevent loading the module from the linux-restricted-modules
package.

This is my wireless card:

03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org