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Zydas/Atheros wireless adapter not working

Asked by jesse

I have an Airlink 101 USB wireless G adapter. The chip itself says Zydas, and Windows has also detected it as an Atheros device, and it worked properly. Recently when using 8.04 it has stopped working. I don't think I did anything differently, and I have tried reinstalling ubuntu. It doesn't seem to detect the device in the network manager. When the adapter is plugged in, I get this in my logs:

jesse-desktop kernel: [ 246.702064] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 81

The address starts at 2, and goes up to 127 before it restarts again at 2. As soon as I remove it, it stops.

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jesse (idiotsoftcorp) said : 		#1

The problem first started after I was forced to reboot. I had put my system into standby, and brought it out, but nothing displayed on my screen.

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Best Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#2

So what does it show up as if you run this in a terminal window (Applications menu, Accessories)...

lsusb

That will determine what Ubuntu sees the device as and therfore which driver it tries to load.

You could also try

sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd

And see if it works after that (don't reboot though as it will reload the ehci_hcd module)

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jesse (idiotsoftcorp) said : 		#3

Thank you! sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd seemed to fix it.