wireless issues MADWIFI

[lynxproxy]

I need some help getting wireless to work on my laptop. I have a built in NIC and a PCMCIA one

doing an lspci lists this:

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# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 645xx (rev 51)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 14)
0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
0000:00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
0000:00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
0000:00:09.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:09.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:09.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]

lsmod looks like this:

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# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  250816  8 
pcmcia                 27440  4 
pcspkr                  3788  0 
rtc                     9364  0 
r8169                  26220  0 
yenta_socket           22120  2 
rsrc_nonstatic         12800  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            50404  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_sis96x              5508  0 
i2c_core               22400  1 i2c_sis96x
sis_agp                 8612  1 
agpgart                35440  1 sis_agp
joydev                  9600  0 
dm_mirror              22940  0 
dm_mod                 57860  1 dm_mirror
ata_piix                9668  0 
ahci                   11588  0 
sata_qstor              9860  0 
sata_vsc                8196  0 
sata_uli                7392  0 
sata_sis                7232  0 
sata_sx4               13764  0 
sata_nv                 9476  0 
sata_via                8612  0 
sata_svw                7684  0 
sata_sil                9284  0 
sata_promise           11108  0 
libata                 46628  12 ata_piix,ahci,sata_qstor,sata_vsc,sata_uli,sata_sis,sata_sx4,sata_nv,sata_via,sata_svw,sata_sil,sata_promise
sbp2                   23688  0 
ohci1394               34452  0 
ieee1394              100792  2 sbp2,ohci1394
sl811_hcd              13600  0 
ohci_hcd               21284  0 
uhci_hcd               32144  0 
usb_storage            70752  0 
usbhid                 43040  0 
ehci_hcd               31816  0 
usbcore               115996  7 sl811_hcd,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd

iwconfig shows this:

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# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

basically I just dont no where to start like even if my wireless card is being detected or not. I was reading the guide for wireless but that assumes that you have the card detected. I installed wpa-suplicant and ndiswrapper already just need to know about getting the card detected. thanks

[lynxproxy]

alright emerged madwifi, and created a file called net.ath0 inwhich i put these settings:

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STARTMODE=onboot
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
WIRELESS=yes
MODE=managed
ESSID=skynet
CHANNEL=6

and then also added

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iface_ath0="dhcp"

to /etc/conf.d/net

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I was trying to do ifconfig ath0 up but it kept saying that there was no such device so if anyone has ever used madwifi and had any recomendations for what to do i would greatly appreciate it...thanks

[lynxproxy]

well restarted the machine and now I can bring ath0 up but now eth0 is failing when dhcpcd executes.
anyways I got iwconfig to show ath0 now and i set essid and key and all but what do i do now? if i

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/etc/init.d/net.ath0

it doesnt do anything and i still cant connect

[lynxproxy]

Come on someone has to know about this, this is common knowlege for starting up wireless eth i just cant figure it out. im sure some1 that is using wireless must no what I have to do, im getting ath0 to show up now just dont no how to start it and what to type inside the net.ath0 file

[TheLegend81]

emerge dhcpcd

do NOT emerge openssh -- I had my thing working perfectly until I emerged openssh