[plug] Atheros Madwifi Kubuntu
William Kenworthy
billk at iinet.net.au
Sun Feb 19 21:41:24 WST 2006
madwifi works well if you use matched drivers/tools and wpa_supplicant
if applicable. Mixing versions often results in a broken wifi setup.
Instead of the latest subversion, you would be wise to download whatever
is your distros standard set and use that - they have done the pain for
you. In case you missed it, you already have one error message related
to this in the text below.
I regularly run into this - get it right and it works great, get it
wrong and ...
BillK
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 21:31 +0800, caston at arach.net.au wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'm running kubuntu on a Twinhead Durabook 14k
> I initially had the 2.6.12 voltage pcmcia issue so upgraded to 2.6.15-1-k7
> from sid.
>
> I'm using a TP-LINK 108mb pcmcia card with the Atheros chipset.
>
> I downloaded the mad wifi drivers using subversion and the following
> instructions:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=105437&highlight=madwifi+ng
>
> dmesg now gives me:
>
> pccard: card ejected from slot 0
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled
> pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
> yenta EnE: chaning testregister 0xC9, 04 -> 04
> PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
> 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: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
> wifi0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
> 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
>
> /var/log/messages
>
> eb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES
> AES_CCM TKIP
> Feb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
> Feb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
> Feb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
> Feb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
> Feb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
> Feb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
> Feb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
> Feb 19 21:26:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x22000000, irq=169
> Feb 19 21:26:04 localhost pci.agent[8061]: ath_pci: already loaded
>
>
>
>
> iwconfig
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wifi0 no wireless extensions.
>
> Warning: Driver for device ath0 has been compiled with version 19
> of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 18.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:""
> Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
> Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
>
> Despite this I cannot find any available wireless networks under kwifimanager.
>
> Am I perhaps missing something?
>
> regards,
>
> Chris Caston
>
>
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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