madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards

Tue Oct 28 09:47:04 UTC 2008

I have an AR242x. Livna madwifi didn't work at all.

Solution: Download madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903, compile and install.

2008/10/27 PH mooraa <phmooraa at gmail.com>:
> 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,
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, PH mooraa <phmooraa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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:11.11.11.1  Bcast:11.11.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>           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: 0.9.18.0 (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=255.255.255.0
>> DHCP_HOSTNAME=
>> IPADDR=11.11.11.1
>> 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
>
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