On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 16:03, Satish Balay wrote: > Ok - your experience with MADWIFI is a year old :). Trying the current > CVS shouldn't cost you much time. > cvs co madwifi (or grab snapshot from > http://madwifi.otaku42.de/2004/11/) > make > make install > modprobe ath_pci > >... > Also, on this list - there are plenty of posts about these cards with > model numbers (but not rev numbers). I'd rather have them post the > 'lspci or cardctl ident' for them. > > BTW: What does 'cardctl ident' say for your cards? > > Satish > > --- > [asterix]: lspci > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC (rev 01) > > So... I got home, downloaded and compiled/installed madwifi according to the instructions in the README file they included. Didn't seem that there was much to it, really. However, as far as I can tell it isn't working, and I'm not getting an error. Here's the output from 'lspci' and 'cardctl ident': 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) *** Socket 0: product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", "Wireless LAN Reference Card", "00" manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012 function: 6 (network) and from dmesg: ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: 0.9.12.14 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212) wlan: 0.8.4.4 (EXPERIMENTAL) ath_rate_onoe: no version for "ether_sprintf" found: kernel tainted. ath_rate_onoe: 1.0 ath_pci: 0.9.4.11 (EXPERIMENTAL) PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 divert: allocating divert_blk for ath0 ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6 ath0: 802.11 address: 00:0f:3d:52:7f:f0 ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x10800000, irq=11 So I know the system knows it's there. However, after running 'ifconfig ath0 up' I get: ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:3D:52:7F:F0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:292 errors:39 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:39 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:36017 (35.1 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 Memory:12b00000-12b10000 It's there - but I get no IP address, and I can't connect out using it. Any ideas what I've missed? I may go back to the Linuxant loaders, just because they claim to have a solution that will work for me, but I'd rather not... Thanks, -Don
