On August 23, 2010, John W. Linville wrote:

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:53:41AM -0600, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:

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On August 22, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:

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Hi, I'm running 2.6.35, and my wireless card fails to initialize
properly

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on boot. I get the following messages in dmesg:

Probably important, but I missed a couple lines:

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[    0.866525] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) ->
IRQ 17 [    0.866536] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    0.866571] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[    1.358241] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x67
[    1.358242] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair
map [    1.358245] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[    1.358247] ath: Regpair used: 0x67

   [    1.360589] phy0: Failed to initialize wep: -2

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[    1.372021] ath5k phy0: can't register ieee80211 hw
[    1.372080] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[    1.372084] ath5k: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -2

Did you enable fips mode?

I don't even know what that is, so no. At least I didn't do it. if wicd did, 
then yes.

John

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