On 26 Nov 2006, at 19:01, Mark Knecht wrote:
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What does `lspic -vt` say?
I assume you meant lspci:
Sector9 ~ # lspci -vt
...
| \-0a.0 Atheros Communications, Inc.
AR5005G 802.11abg NIC
This should be supported by madwifi-ng, although from the comments at
<http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility#AtherosAR5005G> you might try
emerging 0.0.1443.20060207 or 0.0.1531.20060427 if you have problems
with the current release.
What does `iwconfig` say?
Actually, this is interesting and (so far) unexplained. I did not
intentionally ask the system to load ath_pci but it has done that.
I'm pretty sure that udev / coldplug is _supposed_ to do stuff like
that these days.
It
appears that ath_pci may have grabbed to hardware and hence stopped
ndiswrapper from using the card?
Quite possibly so, although I wouldn't rely on NDISwrapper at all
(myself - I have never tried it).
Sector9 ~ # iwconfig
...
ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
This is fairly clearly the madwifi driver. Did you emerge it some
time in the past, or is it part of the main kernel tree these days?
1) What is the proper way to configure this card using ath0, assuming
it actually is supported?
`iwconfig ath0 SSID "Linksys" channel auto key aabbccddeeff &&
ifconfig ath0 up && dhclient ath0` might be a start.
/etc/conf.d/net contains lots of hints for a proper installation. You
might need to `ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.ath0`.
2) If the above data is about my card then why isn't is coming up
802.11g? I get .11g support from ndiswrapper, or did when it
worked...)
Well, do you have it configured _as ath0_? If you have your wlan0 in
all your configuration files then the init scripts are ignoring it.
Assuming that dhcp is clever enough to run on interfaces that aren't
mentioned in /etc/conf.d/net, the SSID & WEP key need to be set
first. You need to have `essid_ath0="Linksys"',
`key_NedNet="aabbccddeeff"' in /etc/conf.d/net.
Also, you might want to try different versions of the madwifi-ng
driver due to the mentioned problems with that particular card.
These'll surely be sorted out in 0.9.3 or 1.0.0, so there's no need
to stress it - if you can't get ath0 working using `iwconfig` &
`ifconfig` then just package mask 0.9.2 and try an earlier version.
Stroller.
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