[SOLVED] Atheros AR2413 Not Working after Suspend in Intrepid

[guywithcable]

I have a Toshiba M55-S135, which has an Atheros AR2413. The wireless quits working after I resume from a suspend. Anyone have any suggestions?

Here's the lspci -v results:

06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7094
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 22
    Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
    Kernel modules: ath_pci

Here's uname -a:

Linux hunter-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[dipaish]

Try this one it may work ....

Atheros ath5k wireless driver not enabled by default

"The version of the ath5k driver for Atheros wireless devices included in Linux 2.6.27 interferes with the use of the madwifi driver for some wireless devices and as a result has been disabled by default. Many Atheros chipsets will work correctly with the madwifi driver, but some newer chipsets may not, and the madwifi driver may not work with WPA authentication. If you have an Atheros device that does not work with madwifi, you will want to install the linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic package, which includes an updated version of the ath5k driver. While not installed by default, this linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic package is included on the Ubuntu 8.10 CD and DVD images for ease of installation. "

So inorder to enable type the following command in terminal mode

deep@deep-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic


And disable any other wireless driver if enabled by going to system----administration--hardware drivers ---(in my case i need to disable support for atheros 802.11 wireless lan cards )

Reboot and then enjoy ,,,you get ur wireless working...

[mcmax453]

I have a Toshiba M55-S135, which has an Atheros AR2413. The wireless quits working after I resume from a suspend. Anyone have any suggestions?

Here's the lspci -v results:

06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7094
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 22
    Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
    Kernel modules: ath_pci

Here's uname -a:

Linux hunter-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I had the same issue, found the solution included in the "8.10 Release Notes"

"
Wireless doesn't work after suspend with ath_pci driver

Wireless devices that use the ath_pci kernel driver, such as the Atheros AR5212 wireless card, will be unable to connect to the network after using suspend and resume. To work around this issue, users can create a file /etc/pm/config.d/madwifi containing the single line:

SUSPEND_MODULES=ath_pci

This will cause the module to be unloaded before suspend and reloaded on resume.
"

link:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810

Hope it works for you too

[guywithcable]

So inorder to enable type the following command in terminal mode

deep@deep-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic


And disable any other wireless driver if enabled by going to system----administration--hardware drivers ---(in my case i need to disable support for atheros 802.11 wireless lan cards )

Reboot and then enjoy ,,,you get ur wireless working...

That did the trick!

I had the same issue, found the solution included in the "8.10 Release Notes"

"
Wireless doesn't work after suspend with ath_pci driver

Wireless devices that use the ath_pci kernel driver, such as the Atheros AR5212 wireless card, will be unable to connect to the network after using suspend and resume. To work around this issue, users can create a file /etc/pm/config.d/madwifi containing the single line:

SUSPEND_MODULES=ath_pci

This will cause the module to be unloaded before suspend and reloaded on resume.
"

link:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810

Hope it works for you too

Is there any advantage to using this method over the one given above?

[bryce4president]

I tried to issue the apt-get install command but it couldn't find the backports... is there a specific software universe I need for this?

[guywithcable]

I tried to issue the apt-get install command but it couldn't find the backports... is there a specific software universe I need for this?

According to your info, you're using Karmic.

[bryce4president]

does that mean that I can't use the version from the intrepid backports?

[guywithcable]

does that mean that I can't use the version from the intrepid backports?

Yes, try linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic

or linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic

[bryce4president]

so apparently I must not have had the madwifi installed yet or something. I reran the make on it and then did a $sudo modprobe ath5k

After that I did $sudo gedit /etc/modules

This allows the driver to boot at start up.
It work as far as seeing networks, I just need to get it to connect to my WPA encryption now.

It prompts me for the password, but when I put it in it won't connect.

[DataMatrix]

I had the same issue, found the solution included in the "8.10 Release Notes"

"
Wireless doesn't work after suspend with ath_pci driver

Wireless devices that use the ath_pci kernel driver, such as the Atheros AR5212 wireless card, will be unable to connect to the network after using suspend and resume. To work around this issue, users can create a file /etc/pm/config.d/madwifi containing the single line:

SUSPEND_MODULES=ath_pci

This will cause the module to be unloaded before suspend and reloaded on resume.
"

link:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810

Hope it works for you too

Thanks a lot, I had the same issue with AR928x (ath9k) on 9.10, it didn't work after suspend. I've created /etc/pm/config.d/01wifi with SUSPEND_MODULES=ath_pci
and now wifi works fine after suspend