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[10.10] Wireless card atheros 5001 is detected but not working

Asked by Kelbizzle on 2010-09-28

I'm not able to see or connect to wireless networks. The hardware is detected. I also notice that if I press the wireless button on the laptop. The LED color doesn't change but hard block does.

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no

Could someone help me through the troubleshooting process? I've been fooling with this for about 5 hours. The community help told me to post the output here.

*-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: MCP77 Ethernet
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: a
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a2
       serial: 00:1f:16:77:7a:67
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.39 latency=0 link=yes maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:42 memory:c0009000-c0009fff ioport:30f8(size=8) memory:c0007c00-c0007cff memory:c0007800-c000780f
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:24:2b:37:c7:61
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:23 memory:c2000000-c200ffff
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu maverick (development branch)"
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller [10de:0754] (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:075e] (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus [10de:0752] (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor [0b40]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor [10de:0753] (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller [10de:0568] (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:077b] (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:077c] (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:077d] (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:077e] (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE [10de:0759] (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio [10de:0774] (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge [10de:075a] (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) [10de:0ad0] (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet [10de:0760] (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge [10de:0569] (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge [10de:077a] (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1300] (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Address Map [1022:1301]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor DRAM Controller [1022:1302]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Miscellaneous Control [1022:1303]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Link Control [1022:1304]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200M G] [10de:0845] (rev a2)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
===============================================
system Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook PC
/0 bus 303C
/0/0 memory 102KiB BIOS
/0/3 processor AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-62
/0/3/5 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/3/6 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/4 memory 4GiB System Memory
/0/4/0 memory 2GiB DIMM DRAM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/4/1 memory 2GiB DIMM DRAM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/5 processor
/0/5/0 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/5/1 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/b memory RAM memory
/0/1 bridge nVidia Corporation
/0/1.1 bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus
/0/1.3 processor MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor
/0/1.4 memory RAM memory
/0/2 bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/2.1 bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
/0/c bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/4.1 bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
/0/6 storage MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE
/0/7 multimedia MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Au
/0/8 bridge MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge
/0/9 scsi3 storage MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI
/0/9/0 /dev/cdrom disk DVDRAM GSA-T50L
/0/9/1 /dev/sdb disk 500GB WDC WD5000BEVT-0
/0/9/1/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 100MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/9/1/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 238GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/9/1/3 /dev/sdb3 volume 226GiB Extended partition
/0/9/1/3/5 /dev/sdb5 volume 217GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/9/1/3/6 /dev/sdb6 volume 9459MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/a eth0 network MCP77 Ethernet
/0/100 bridge MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge
/0/100/0 display C77 [GeForce 8200M G]
/0/14 bridge MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge
/0/14/0 wlan0 network AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
/0/101 bridge Family 11h Processor HyperTransport Configurati
/0/102 bridge Family 11h Processor Address Map
/0/103 bridge Family 11h Processor DRAM Controller
/0/104 bridge Family 11h Processor Miscellaneous Control
/0/105 bridge Family 11h Processor Link Control
/0/d scsi2 storage
/0/d/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk SCSI Disk
Linux Boss-PC 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f7ff0] f7ff0
[ 0.208968] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.238013] HEST: Table is not found!
[ 0.238467] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.238483] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.238510] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.248028] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.262913] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[ 0.319171] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
[ 0.320950] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 0.345438] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 0.398735] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.442913] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.499204] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.554111] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.584729] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.1 loaded
[ 0.584732] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.586188] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-62 (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[ 0.618932] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.705096] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 0.741071] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 0.919032] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
[ 0.919416] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LMAC] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 0.919423] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.931423] scsi2 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 0.931525] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.437450] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 1, addr 00:1f:16:77:7a:67
[ 1.437456] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: highdma csum pwrctl mgmt lnktim msi desc-v3
[ 19.151260] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 19.786632] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[ 19.786646] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 19.786703] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[ 20.285000] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x64
[ 20.285004] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 20.285010] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 20.285012] ath: Regpair used: 0x64
[ 20.706103] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
[ 20.706131] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
[ 20.706135] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
[ 22.508118] input: HDA NVidia Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/sound/card0/input8
[ 22.508213] input: HDA NVidia Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/sound/card0/input9
[ 22.508283] input: HDA NVidia Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 28.012773] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 38.240164] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1048.528017] eth0: link down.
[ 1066.363181] eth0: link up.
[ 1219.640369] eth0: link down.
[ 1443.323824] eth0: link up.
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
> hal.1: read hal dataprocess 2246: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 280.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
21: PCI 0a.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: rBUF.HOUiokKC0A4
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:0a.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "nVidia MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Ethernet"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0760 "MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Ethernet"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x360a
  Revision: 0xa2
  Driver: "forcedeth"
  Driver Modules: "forcedeth"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xc0009000-0xc0009fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x30f8-0x30ff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xc0007c00-0xc0007cff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xc0007800-0xc000780f (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 42 (45385 events)
  HW Address: 00:1f:16:77:7a:67
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000760sv0000103Csd0000360Abc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: forcedeth is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe forcedeth"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

30: PCI 700.0: 0282 WLAN controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: y9sn.eYBzW3bmQnB
  Parent ID: MZfG.4gyqmROFCTA
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/0000:07:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:07:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter"
  Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
  Device: pci 0x001c "AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x137a
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "ath5k"
  Driver Modules: "ath5k"
  Device File: wlan0
  Features: WLAN
  Memory Range: 0xc2000000-0xc200ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 23 (no events)
  HW Address: 00:24:2b:37:c7:61
  Link detected: yes
  WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
  WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462
  WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
  WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
  Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd0000001Csv0000103Csd0000137Abc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: ath5k is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath5k"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #23 (PCI bridge)

[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=false
WWANEnabled=true
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 26058 0
ppdev 5556 0
binfmt_misc 6599 1
nvidia 10207522 40
snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi 12879 1
snd_hda_codec_conexant 29736 1
snd_hda_intel 22107 2
snd_hda_codec 87552 3 snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 5040 1 snd_hda_codec
joydev 8735 0
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
arc4 1165 2
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
ath5k 130051 0
mac80211 231541 1 ath5k
ath 8153 1 ath5k
psmouse 59033 0
serio_raw 4022 0
snd 49006 13 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
cfg80211 144470 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
soundcore 880 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_nforce2 5179 0
video 18712 0
agpgart 32011 1 nvidia
lp 7342 0
output 1883 1 video
led_class 2633 1 ath5k
k10temp 2607 0
shpchp 29886 0
hp_wmi 5191 0
parport 31492 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usb_storage 40172 1
ahci 19013 0
forcedeth 49433 0
pata_amd 8746 0
libahci 21667 3 ahci