MadWifi-NG Issues:Default Settings Get Network/SSID, No DHCP

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Kenji Miyamoto · Post by **Kenji Miyamoto** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 6:03 am

I've run into a problem with the MadWifi-NG drivers (0.9.3.1 compiled against Suspend2 2.6.21-r5), where when I use the default net configuration, it returns no error until dhcpcd. dhcpcd returns "Error: ath0 timeout" and I get zero connectivity.

dmesg says nothing other than "No IPv6 routers present" every now and then, and no errors (other than a warning about no WEP encryption) are given by the script.

The chip is an Atheros 5424/2424, also listed under lspci as a "Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)."

What is wrong here?

jhohwie · Post by **jhohwie** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:09 pm

had a similar problem with madwifi...

after starting wpa_supplicant try:

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ifconfig ath0 down
ifconfig ath0 up

and then

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dhcpcd ath0

hth

-joe

pdr · Post by **pdr** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:02 am

I'm waiting for a new driver. When I connect, it does not connect to the correct channel. I manually connect, wait for the light on my laptop (takes a few seconds), then do

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iwconfig ath0 channel 1

where my AP is on channel 1 (on its own it usually is going to channel 11, sometimes 6, ..)

From what I understand the wireless init scripts used to take this into account for madwifi, but was removed relatively recently since it was a hack around a driver bug..

This works for me because I am not doing dhcp; if this is your problem (check the forums - a few people have this problem) then you might have to manually start dhcp after you have gotten the interface to use the correct channel..

yuwy · Post by **yuwy** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:37 am

rmmod all the relevant madwifi stuff then do this

modprobe ath_rate_sample
modprobe wlan_scan_sta
modprobe wlan_wep
modprobe ath_pci

then try again