Re: Help with notebook wi-fi
Robert O. Kahl wrote:
I'm unable to get wifi working on my Presario Laptop (H-P) Model
V6719NR. Any Help would be appreciated.
The system is setup with Fedora 8/KDE, dual boot with Vista The
start-up error message shows:
Bringing up interface for wlan0. Error for wireless request "Set
Mode" (8B06)
SET failed on device wlan0; invalid argument
Determining IP info for wlan0... [FAILED]
The boot sequence stops and then resumes after exactly 60 seconds!
The KDE Network Device Manager shows it recognizes the Atheros
chipset, but I can't "Activate" it.
A dmesg dump shows:
ath5k phy0: Atheros 2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70
(Incidentally, it works OK in Vista. Their Device Manager shows the
chip is an Atheros AR007)
Any advice on how to correct the "invalid argument" and to proceed
would be greately appreciated.
Bob Kahl
The Atheros series is only partially supported by the stock kernels -
Take a look at the madwifi packages from livna repository. If you're
luck your chipset will be supported. Even this doesn't support all the
chipsets. I have a MacBook Pro SantaRosa, which has a Atheros chipset
for wireless. I had to download the latest version of madwifi and
compile the kernel module in that before I got everything to work
properly...
John