Hi everyone.
I'm trying to get this Alfa card working. Plenty of irony as I bought this one to hopefully have a more trouble free backtrack experience but alas it doesn't seem so at this stage
Anyway, I've gone through and (I believe) correctly installed the compat-wireless drivers. Ath9k is associated with the card etc, but unfortunately I just can't get it recognized in ifconfig. Any help as to where I could go from here is greatly appreciated.
Initial Dmesg, I've got no idea why it's failing
Code:
root@bt:~# dmesg | grep ath
[ 8.912805] usb 2-1.3: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
[ 8.912817] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc
[ 9.196323] usb 2-1.3: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272
[ 10.192919] ath9k_htc 2-1.3:1.0: ath9k_htc: Target is unresponsive
[ 10.192931] ath9k_htc: Failed to initialize the device
[ 10.201992] usb 2-1.3: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized
lsmod
Code:
root@bt:~# lsmod | grep ath9k
ath9k_htc 90944 0
mac80211 539998 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_common 13604 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_hw 389542 2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common
ath 23032 3 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw
cfg80211 205053 3 ath9k_htc,mac80211,ath
compat 19385 5 ath9k_htc,mac80211,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw,cfg8021
lsusb
Code:
root@bt:~# lsusb
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 046d:c066 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro Corp. Hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
After a while I pull it out / replug it in, it seems to initialize correctly...
Code:
root@bt:~# dmesg | grep ath9k
[ 8.912805] usb 2-1.3: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
[ 8.912817] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc
[ 9.196323] usb 2-1.3: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272
[ 10.192919] ath9k_htc 2-1.3:1.0: ath9k_htc: Target is unresponsive
[ 10.192931] ath9k_htc: Failed to initialize the device
[ 10.201992] usb 2-1.3: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized
[ 241.702859] usb 2-1.3: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
[ 241.986525] usb 2-1.3: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272
[ 242.221482] ath9k_htc 2-1.3:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[ 242.408728] ath9k_htc 2-1.3:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.3
[ 242.414171] Registered led device: ath9k_htc-phy1
But it still doesn't register 
Code:
root@bt:~# modprobe ath9k_htc
root@bt:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 50:e5:49:c9:4e:bb
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:46 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Like I said, any help is really appreciated.
