Hi Eric,
after a couple of months here I am again!
I did a fresh install (Slackware 12) on a "brand new" DELL LATITUDE with a PIII and an HD with 10GB!
Instead of going for NDISWRAPPER (which we solved already) I will try MADWIFI from the beggining.
Following your Dokuwiki, when configuring rc.wireless.conf I face the following situation:
lspci gives:
0:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556 Hurricane CardBus [Cyclone] (rev 10)
00:10.1 Communication controller: 3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k Winmodem (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005VL 802.11bg Wireless NIC (rev 01)
which is fine, the card is recognized.
lsmod shows:
bash-3.1# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ath_pci 92192 0
wlan 195268 1 ath_pci
ath_hal 193616 1 ath_pci
but ifconfig gives me:
you'll notice the cable (eth0) is up.
bash-3.1# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:76:3F:8A
C
inet addr:192.168.6.158 Bcast:192.168.6.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::204:76ff:fe3f:8adc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14979 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9172 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:17405094 (16.5 MiB) TX bytes:997672 (974.2 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xcc00
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:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9632 (9.4 KiB) TX bytes:9632 (9.4 KiB)
and
bash-3.1# ifconfig ath0
ath0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
why is the interface not available? Where did I go wrong?
Thanks for helping!