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Brendenm
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 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject: Madwifi 9.30 |
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I have a Thinkpad t60p with the new Atheros based wireless in it. It is a bgn card so I had to get the newest version of madwifi from their website instead of emerging it.
Here is my problem, my system detects the card correctly now. However when I load the ath_pci module I get a wlan0 wireless device instead of athX. That really wouldn't be that big of a problem except that it won't connection to any access point, encrypted or otherwise.
Any ideas?[/code]
lspci output
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02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
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dmesg output
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ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r2257)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: turboA rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 12.10 phy 8.1 radio 12.0
wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
wifi0: Atheros 5418: mem=0xedf00000, irq=21
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JBen
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah I had similar problem.
After load ath_pci module, load wlan_scan_sta module, and after bring your ath0 interface on. After it should work fine.
For connect my womputer in a wireless network I do this :
| Code: | modprobe ath_pci
modprobe wlan_scan_sta
ifconfig ath0 up
iwconfig ath0 scan
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And I have the wireless network list  .
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Brendenm
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I have read that specific page. However every time I create the interface it gets created as wlan0.
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user@host # modprobe ath_pci autocreate=none
user@host # iwconfig
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
user@host # wlanconfig wlan0 destroy
user@host # wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
ath0
user@host # iwconfig
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:8 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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It makes no sense to me. |
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JBen
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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Did you test my answer ? It work fine for me.
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Brendenm
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| JBen wrote: | | Did you test my answer ? It work fine for me. |
Yes I have performed those steps, my system does not create the ath0 but a wlan0 interface. Also it does not allow me to associate to any access point. |
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JBen
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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can you scan with this inferface ?
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Brendenm
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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JBen:
Yes scanning does work. After further research I found that other people are having problems with encrypted networks on the new Atheros chipset\drivers. I doesn't look like full support for them is out yet.
Still doesn't answer my question of why I'm getting wlanX instead of athX for my wireless interface though. |
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JBen
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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you can scan with :
| Code: | | iwconfig interface scan |
but the next command don't work.
| Code: | | iwconfig inferface essid your_essid |
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