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Contents 1 Atheros AR2413 1.1 General Information 1.1.1 Problem 1.1.2 Fix 1.2 OpenSuSE 11.1 1.2.1 Problem 1.2.2 Fix

[edit] Atheros AR2413

Bus: PCI

Driver: ath5k or ath_pci

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Device Website:

[edit] General Information

While the device itself seems to work with either driver there is no easy way to turn off the radio

[edit] Problem

Radio switch is recognized by X/Gnome as an event but there's no way to send the signal to switch the state, except manually. Also this device prevents Sleep and Hibernate from working correctly.

[edit] Fix

Currently, the manual way is as root:

echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless

to turn it off. Or send a '1' to turn it on

[edit] OpenSuSE 11.1

(and other SuSE version from 10.0+)

[edit] Problem

Suspend/Hibernate -- wireless does not reconnect

[edit] Fix

Create a file /etc/pm/config.d/ath5k with one line:

SUSPEND_MODULES="ath5k"

the file could really be called anything, I use ath5k only because thats the name of the module. If your using the mad-wifi driver, replace "ath5k" with "ath_pci"