With ath5k my wireless card does not find any ntworks

Hello, can you please provide us with an ath_info dump ? Also did you test latest compat-wireless package ?

ath_info is not aviable on the opensuse liveCDs. I'll try the compat-wireless on my installed system later.

i testes compat wireless and it seems to work fine. :)

I'm using Debian Lenny on AMD64, and I'm having exactly this problem, so here's the output from the ath_info:

# ath_info c0300000
 -==Device Information==-
MAC Version:  2425  (0xe0)
MAC Revision: ????? (0xe2)
Warning: Invalid EEPROM Magic number!
Device type:  3

/============== EEPROM Information =============\
| EEPROM Version:   5.3 | EEPROM Size:   4 kbit |
| EEMAP:              2 | Reg. Domain:     0x30 |
|================= Capabilities ================|
| 802.11a Support:  no  | Turbo-A disabled: yes |
| 802.11b Support:  no  | Turbo-G disabled: yes |
| 802.11g Support:  yes | 2GHz XR disabled: yes |
| RFKill  Support:  yes | 5GHz XR disabled: yes |
| 32kHz   Crystal:  no  |                       |
\===============================================/

/=========================================================\
|          Calibration data common for all modes          |
|=========================================================|
|          CCK/OFDM gain delta:             1             |
|          CCK/OFDM power delta:            5             |
|          Scaled CCK delta:                5             |
|          2GHz Antenna gain:               1             |
|          5GHz Antenna gain:               4             |
|          Turbo 2W maximum dBm:           38             |
|          Target power start:          0x16e             |
|          EAR Start:                   0x1b8             |
\=========================================================/

/=========================================================\
|          Calibration data for 802.11g operation         |
|=========================================================|
| I power:              0x00 | Q power:              0x10 |
| Use fixed bias:       0x01 | Max turbo power:      0x26 |
| Max XR power:         0x1e | Switch Settling Time: 0x28 |
| Tx/Rx attenuation:    0x19 | TX end to XLNA On:    0x00 |
| TX end to XPA Off:    0x00 | TX end to XPA On:     0x0e |
| 62db Threshold:       0x1c | XLNA gain:            0x00 |
| XPD:                  0x01 | XPD gain:             0x0a |
| I gain:               0x00 | Tx/Rx margin:         0x01 |
| False detect backoff: 0x00 | Noise Floor Threshold:  -1 |
| ADC desired size:      -38 | PGA desired size:      -80 |
|=========================================================|
| Antenna control   0:  0x00 | Antenna control   1:  0x01 |
| Antenna control   2:  0x22 | Antenna control   3:  0x22 |
| Antenna control   4:  0x00 | Antenna control   5:  0x00 |
| Antenna control   6:  0x02 | Antenna control   7:  0x21 |
| Antenna control   8:  0x21 | Antenna control   9:  0x00 |
| Antenna control  10:  0x00 | Antenna control  11:  0x02 |
|=========================================================|
| Octave Band 0:           3 | db 0:                    3 |
| Octave Band 1:           4 | db 1:                    4 |
| Octave Band 2:           0 | db 2:                    0 |
| Octave Band 3:           0 | db 3:                    0 |
\=========================================================/
/=================== Per channel power calibration ====================\
| Freq | pwr_0 | pwr_1 | pwr_2 | pwr_3 |pwrx3_0|pwrx3_1|pwrx3_2|max_pwr|
|      | pcdac | pcdac | pcdac | pcdac | pcdac | pcdac | pcdac |       |
|======|=======|=======|=======|=======|=======|=======|=======|=======|
| 2412 | 25.00 | 25.00 |  0.00 | 25.00 |  0.00 |  0.00 | 29.01 | 25.00 |
|      | [112] | [112] | [112] | [112] |  [20] |  [35] |  [63] |       |
\======================================================================/

GPIO registers: CR 0x00000000, DO 0x00000000, DI 0x00000003
STA_ID0: 00:c0:a8:fe:1a:12
STA_ID1: 0x0020121a, AP: 0, IBSS: 0, KeyCache Disable: 0
TIMER0: 0x00000030, TBTT:    48, TU: 0x003a0030
TIMER1: 0x0007ffff, DMAb: 65535, TU: 0x0039ffff (-49)
TIMER2: 0x01ffffff, SWBA: 65535, TU: 0x003fffff (+393167)
TIMER3: 0x00000031, ATIM:    49, TU: 0x003a0031 (+1)
TSF: 0x00000000e651b8e4, TSFTU: 37998, TU: 0x0039946e
BEACON: 0x00000000
LAST_TSTP: 0xfe4feeff

Both, ath5k and ath9k, are part of the kernel some time now. It's better for everyone to have bug reports for those drivers in the kernel bugzilla, as they will likely get better attention there. Hence from now on we don't accept new tickets for ath5k/ath9k here.

We talked to Linux Wireless developers about how to best handle tickets that already have been filed here for ath5k/ath9k. The original idea was to copy those bugs over to the kernel bugzilla. But then many of these tickets have not seen any activity for a while, and it's not clear if the reported issue still exists or if the reporter is even still around to answer bugs.

In the end we agreed that it would be best to ask people to open a new ticket at bugzilla.kernel.org for those issues that still exist in the latest version of ath5k/ath9k, and close related tickets here. This is what I do now (closing as invalid, since that seems to be the best matching resolution available).

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.