[madwifi] Thinkpad z60t wifi does not work

please see upstream bug I filed: http://madwifi.org/ticket/263

Matthew Garrett uploaded the new linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-22-386 that is supposed to contain both madwifi and madwifi-ng. It still does not work. Here are the details:

PCI IDs are 0000:13:00.0 0200: 168c:1014 (rev 01)
They are recognized by madwifi but as you can see above, madwifi does not like it it. Same PCI ID, different behaviour.

Here is what I did:
-I did blacklist madwifi
-modprobe new_ath_pci
dmesg show the following
[4294779.161000] new_ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[4294779.162000] new_ath_hal: 0.9.16.16 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[4294779.204000] wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[4294779.257000] wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn 2006-05-16)
[4294779.259000] new_ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (svn 2006-05-16)
[4294779.268000] ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn 2006-05-16)

-then I did add the PCI IDs to the driver with :
echo 168c:1014 >/sys/bus/pci/drivers/new_ath_pci/new_id
dmesg now shows
[4294796.592000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:13:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 74
[4294796.592000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:13:00.0 to 64
[4294796.592000] wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'No hardware present or device not yet supported' (HAL status 1)
[4294796.592000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:13:00.0 disabled

Still nothing visibile with iwconfig.

Matthew, any thoughts on this?

Grah non-free driver hatred.

Same problem on Thinkpad R60, although it was working a few days ago (no, restarts/reloading module doesn't help).

$sudo modprobe ath_pci
$dmesg
...
[17234327.760000] ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
[17234327.764000] wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[17234327.764000] ath_rate_sample: 1.2
[17234327.768000] ath_pci: 0.9.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[17234327.768000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 74
[17234327.768000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
[17234327.768000] ath_attach: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3)
[17234327.768000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:00.0 disabled

$lspci
...
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
...

I'm aware that there is a switch on the front edge of the laptop used for turning wireless on/off, and have tried loading the driver while in both positions just for the hell of it. I'd really like to have my wireless back.

For what its worth. I'm getting the exact same message on a Thinkpad T60p.

this one has been fixed a Feisty a while back as the adapter is recognized...

Ok, closing the bug, thanks!