On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Don Levey wrote: > 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... Well - when I tried madwifi with FC3 - I just copied my config from FC1. Basically - I have /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/[ifcfg-ath0,keys-ath0] files --- [balay@n-gage network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-ath0 DEVICE=ath0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp TYPE=Wireless USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes IPV6INIT=no ESSID=*** [balay@n-gage network-scripts]$ cat keys-ath0 KEY=********** -- I've primarily used it with 802.11b - and start the network with: ifup ath0 Satish PS: Currently this machine runs FC1 (I'm yet to migrate it to FC3) I have a spare disk with FC3 - which I've ocassionally swapped in to test.
