i have a laptop with a wireless atheros and the madwifi driver is run correctly, during the configuration process i have any problem because i unknow very well the system. I can try help you, if you describe more details about your problem.
what is the result of the command # ifconfig ? the wireless is 'up'? excuse-me for my bad english, i am brazilian thanks 2008/2/17, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm struggling with wireless on my nc6000 laptop. I followed the > > newbie instructions on www.madwifi.org. > > This is an old write-up I did for my nc4000. Taking the vintage of > the write-up for Sarge into consideration the instructions there might > help you. > > http://www.proulx.com/~bob/nc4000/ > > > Installation went well, the > > blue light turns on. Then when I type "wlist ath0 scan", the return > > is "ath0 no scan results" even though I a next to my wireless router > > at home. I'm using WEP encrytion and typed "iwconfig ath0 key > > xxxxxxxxxx" with my real key. > > > > I think I'm configuring the wireless incorrectly, but I cannot find > > a thread. > > I am just going to quote directly from my old page on the subject. I > am sure things have changed since then. You might need to make > adjustments to these old Sarge instructions. > > Getting the wireless running consists of the following for me. These > are all done as root. Of course if you have a closed access point you > will need to set the SSID to match instead of to "any". This is the > "coffee shop" setting. > > modprobe ath_pci > iwconfig ath0 mode managed rate auto rts off frag off key off enc > off > iwconfig ath0 txpower auto # seems to power up transmitter > iwconfig ath0 essid any # seems to power up transmitter > ifconfig ath0 up # initiates active scan for access point > sleep 2 # give time to settle > iwlist ath0 scanning > shorewall start > dhclient ath0 > > Initially iwconfig shows the txpower off. But after this txpower is on > (0 db). Unloading the module seems to power off the transmitter. I am > still experimenting with this. > > ifconfig ath0 down > rmmod ath_pci > rmmod ath_hal > rmmod wlan > > > Can anyone help? New to debian, new to madwifi. Please excuse me if > > I should post to madwifi.org instead. > > I think this is quite a good topic for debian-laptop. > > Bob > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHuLGW0pRcO8E2ULYRAim8AJ9NX6IVt9TSdNdBrOCj1lD2hyxR5wCfVALn > BQ612f8/gfnr75TiHYWD2pc= > =dvuK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
