Wireless Fail - Netgear Wg311t On Xubuntu

The most recent info on this card is about 10 years old.

The story is that I had an old dying PC with a vast accumulation of dust, causing sparks to fly.
I transferred the disk & wireless card across to a "known good PC" - and "amazingly" it worked.

This lasted for about a week.
OS is Xubuntu 12.04 and recommended updates of an unknown nature were applied from repositories & PPA's (not by me).

Soon after, wireless on the ancient Netgear wg311t PCI card failed.
I've tried moving it to a different slot - still does not work.
I've tried booting up from a Xubuntu 14.04.2 DVD - still does not work.
The two slots give slightly different results to the command Code:
dmesg | grep ath5k

First slot Code:
[   63.714417] ath5k 0000:05:06.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   63.733142] ath5k: phy0: failed to wakeup the MAC Chip
[   63.733482] ath5k: probe of 0000:05:06.0 failed with error -5

Second slot Code:
[   13.594859] ath5k 0000:05:08.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[   13.594943] ath5k 0000:05:08.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   13.606136] ath5k phy0: failed to wakeup the MAC Chip
[   13.606531] ath5k 0000:05:08.0: PCI INT A disabled
[   13.606768] ath5k: probe of 0000:05:08.0 failed with error -5

I'm prepared to buy a replacement card - so long as it is cheap!


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Code:
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#
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uname -r
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2) 3.16.0-23-generic

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1)
Code:
description: VGA compatible controller
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2)
Code:
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1)
Code:
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  0:         41          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:        517          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
  9:       7245          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
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 44:        369          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
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LOC:      27594      20371   Local timer interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
PMI:         69         47   Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI:          0          0   IRQ work interrupts
RES:      33502      39919   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:        407       6719   Function call interrupts
TLB:       1138       1213   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
THR:          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE:          0          0   Machine check exceptions
MCP:          1          1   Machine check polls
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

2)
Code:
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  0:         46          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:       2154          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
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LOC:      70348      59679   Local timer interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
PMI:        147        132   Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI:          1          0   IRQ work interrupts
RTR:          0          0   APIC ICR read retries
RES:      20827      27012   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:       1802       2767   Function call interrupts
TLB:       1875       1439   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
THR:          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE:          0          0   Machine check exceptions
MCP:          4          4   Machine check polls
THR:          0          0   Hypervisor callback interrupts
ERR:          0
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1)
Code:
[    0.378029] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
[    6.579368] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    6.614256] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 PC Cam (090c:037c)
[    6.616059] usbco  registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[    6.616064] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

2)
Code:
[    0.338661] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
[   11.048529] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[   11.049314] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input10
[   36.372066] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   36.908529] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 PC Cam (090c:037c)
[   36.961726] usbco  registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   36.961733] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[   38.262977] systemd-logind[1547]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event5 (Video Bus)

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1)
Code:
[    5.465696] gma500 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    5.465749] gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[    5.466125] gma500 0000:00:02.0: GPU: power management timed out.
[    5.958548] gma500 0000:00:02.0: allocated 1280x800 fb
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2)
Code:
[   11.030830] gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[   11.030934] gma500 0000:00:02.0: GPU: power management timed out.
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Code:
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yields
Code:
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GLX Version: N/A


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