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Ticket #1916 (new defect)

Opened 14 years ago

D-Link DWL-AG530 A6 not working

Reported by: stronny@celestia.ru Assigned to:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: madwifi: other Version: trunk
Keywords: Cc:
Patch is attached: 0 Pending:

Description

lspci -nnvv: 

00:0d.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. Unknown device [168c:000b] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Unknown device [1186:3a22]
        Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
        Latency: 32 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 255
        Region 0: Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]

dmesg: 

ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133)
wlan: svn r3579
ath_pci: svn r3579

There is an entry in the compatibility list (wiki/Compatibility/D-Link): A6 2.30 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006X 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Works

I have tried to put the card to a different slot. And the motherboard is a bit antique: Asus K7V.