For the past couple of days I have been trying to get my new install of Fedora 8 to use the wireless card I have which uses the Atheros AR5006X chipset.
It has always been able to see the card and give me info about it when I use lspci and iwconfig but when I tried to activate it in the "Network Configuration" "Devices" tab it would try and fail to activate.
I downloaded the latest driver from Atheros, made and installed it. Using DHCP it still wouldn't activate but when I entered an IP and gateway details manually the device activated no problem.
If I open the system monitor and look at the resources tab, there at the bottom is the "Network History" which shows bytes being sent and received constantly.
Everything _looks_ like it's working but it just wont connect to the router.
I definitely have the right key, I have the right channel selected.
I have captured a load of info but I'll not post it all straight away as there is tonnes of it. I'll just attach the iwconfig for now.
If anyone has any idea what I can try I would be grateful.
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11a ESSID:"" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.2 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/70 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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