MadWIFI and FC3 [WAS: FC3, Linuxant, stock kernel (2.6.9-1.667) and 4k stacks]
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 11 04:46:28 UTC 2004
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 at n-gage network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-ath0
DEVICE=ath0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=***
[balay at 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.
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