FS#10595 - support for Atheros AR5007EG now available

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Luke Townsley (lhtown) - Thursday, 05 June 2008, 16:33 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 05 July 2008, 14:33 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I have a new Lenovo THinkpad R61e with the famous Atheros AR5007EG chip that comes up with lspci as AR5006EG. The madwifi driver doesn't work with the version of Hal in the Arch repository.

I understand that there is finally support with Hal for this chip.

You can see this thread:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679

and in particular, this paragraph:
"Hi all,

There is a good news. I'm able to use this wifi chipset, in my Gentoo GNU/Linux (amd64/hardened) box, in the native linux kernel driver mode. No ndiswrapper thingie required.

I'm that hal recently (on 28th May, 2008) posted by sam in his public_html directory at people.freebsd.org. I just replaced that hal with the madwifi's hal and now I'm running fine with no issues.

HTTP URL: people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz

The site is unreachable at the moment on IPv4 internet, so I downloaded it by connecting to it over an IPv6 tunnel.

Hope to see a blob-free driver soon."



Additional info:

I haven't tried to install it yet since I don't feel comfortable trying it.

* package version(s)
Hal
* config and/or log files etc.
The error I get with the current version of Hal and madwifi (from the Arch repositories), gives this dmesg output:
MadWifi: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)

Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Saturday, 05 July 2008, 14:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#9202 
Comment by Luke Townsley (lhtown) - Monday, 16 June 2008, 20:33 GMT
This thread contains more and better information regarding this issue.
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1192
Comment by Luke Townsley (lhtown) - Monday, 16 June 2008, 22:46 GMT
Using the tarball from the above link, I go this working on my Lenovo 61e Thinkpad. I am using a 64 bit Arch install. In any event, this should be in the next version of Hal making this request obsolete when that happens.

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