[plug] Atheros Madwifi Kubuntu

[William Kenworthy]

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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