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Atheros 5007 reported incorrectly as "Atheros Communications, Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) " on Amilo 1718li Laptop in Hardy Heron Beta

Bug #209414 reported by coenieolivier
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Bug Description

Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo 1718li. Wireless buttons not working. There is a script by damagedspline that fixes the problem for most amilo users.
Wireless for the laptop is Atheros 5007, but is identified incorrectly as Atheros Communications, Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

Everything else seems to be working fine

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Pascal Bach (pascal-bach) wrote :

Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

I can confirm this bug on a Acer Aspire 5315.

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Pascal Bach (pascal-bach) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #182489, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Charles Manning (manningc2) wrote : Acer 4315 wifi proken on Hardy

I had this bug on an Acer 4315 too.

corrected by adding the line:
blacklist ath_pci

 to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

What is really odd is that previous versions of the file had this blacklist entry but it got overwritten in a more recent version.

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LillieJJ (ubuntu-johnjlillie) wrote :

I am also having this problem on a HP dv6815nr with ubuntu 8.04. Is there a resolution coming?

JJL

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