If someone can please help. same cards AR5413 (ar5006x) work with madwifi-0.9.4 on ubuntu but does not work on Fedora. I tried upgrading kernel too but still no luck. ath5k which comes built in in F9 works with this card. Initially some howto mentioned to blacklist this module before loading madwifi's ath_pci. Isn't ath5k still in starting phase? Has someone tried to use it with ar5413 (ar5006x) cards? thanks, <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, PH mooraa <<a href="mailto:phmooraa@gmail.com">phmooraa@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi All, -- reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is with Fedora not madwifi -- I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with following - #uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc mode. (livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386, kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686, kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686, madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386) In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are not able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0 does not receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one from another. routes are set. #iwconfig ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wmnad" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain" Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=46/70 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm Rx invalid nwid:7069 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 #ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A inet addr:<a rel="nofollow" href="http://11.11.11.1/" target="_blank">11.11.11.1</a> Bcast:<a rel="nofollow" href="http://11.11.11.255/" target="_blank">11.11.11.255</a> Mask:<a rel="nofollow" href="http://255.255.255.0/" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a> inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB) wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464 TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB) TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB) On both machines ath0 RX packets remains 0 and I don't know why is this happening!!! Can someone please help.. I think that there no problems with ath_pci loading as can be seen - #dmesg ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://0.9.18.0/" target="_blank">0.9.18.0</a> (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) .. wlan: 0.9.4 ath_pci: 0.9.4 .. ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4) wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP wifi0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3 wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdef0000, irq=18 .. ath0: no IPv6 routers present ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready ath0: no IPv6 routers present ath0: no IPv6 routers present My configuration file for interface is like - #cat ifcfg-ath0 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=ath0 HWADDR=00:02:6f:51:77:3a BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=<a rel="nofollow" href="http://255.255.255.0/" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a> DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR=<a rel="nofollow" href="http://11.11.11.1/" target="_blank">11.11.11.1</a> DOMAIN= ONBOOT=no USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes IPV6INIT=no ESSID=cwmnad CHANNEL=1 MODE=Ad-Hoc RATE=auto ENCRYPTION=off SECURITYMODE=off IWPRIV="authmode 1" In last 3 lines, I overdid security because initially I thought the problem is due to authentication. I don't want any security at this point. [ Other tests - - the same card works in managed mode and connects to my building's WLAN AP. This makes me wonder more what I doing wrong. - same cards with madwifi 0.9.4 works on Ubuntu in ad-hoc mode which shows that something in Fodora is going wrong. I really like F9 and really don't want to switch to ubuntu. ] Any help is really appreciated. Thanks in advance, phm </blockquote></div>