[Voyage-linux] No wireless connection

Wolfgang Grim (spam-protected)
Fri Jul 4 17:29:57 HKT 2008


Hi!

I am unable to get my wireless card running. It's a card based on an atheros
chipset.

Output of lspci:
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Unknown device 2080 (rev
31)
00:01.1 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode LX
Video
00:01.2 Entertainment encryption device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode
LX AES Security Block
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev
96)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg
NIC (rev 01)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion]
ISA (rev 03)
00:0f.2 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion]
IDE (rev 01)
00:0f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536
[Geode companion] Audio (rev 01)
00:0f.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode
companion] OHC (rev 02)

So the card is found!

But when I do a iwconfig:
lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.
wifi0     no wireless extensions.

I tried so many things but nothing worked... Any suggestions?





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