Problwm in Atheros AR2413 on fedora 11 with 2.6.30.8 kernel

vivekrhce · 10-06-2009, 10:28 PM

I have configured the AR2413(bg) Atheros wireless using ath5k (which is inbuilt in fc11),but the wireless interface does not receive any packet but it send the packet....
i try to find a answer a lot on google and from other sites but nothing works
suggest me the steps how to connect two fc11 machines in Adhoc mode .....

when i execute the command ifconfig it shows

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:191:EE:B7:BF
inet addr:192.168.100.63 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:d1ff:feee:b7bf/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1520 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:849593 (829.6 KiB) TX bytes:223690 (218.4 KiB)

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:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6304 (6.1 KiB) TX bytes:6304 (6.1 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:95:C3:FB:F9
inet addr:10.10.10.1 Bcast:10.10.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:95ff:fec3:fbf9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1848 (1.8 KiB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-11-95-C3-FB-F9-11-02-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP RUNNING MTU:0 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)

and when i execute iwconfig it shows

lo no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Digisign"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 72:1F:0D:FF:73:EE
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

Plz help me.

sonichedgehog · 10-07-2009, 05:32 PM

Maybe you need a better driver, ath_pci

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=982808 specifically refers to AR2413 and mentions ath_pci as the working driver, give it a try

look at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-get...epid-ibex.html

mine is Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) so I can't be sure this solution will work for you

If ath_pci is correct, then the above link should be enough on its own, I have installed this driver on both Debian Lenny & Ubuntu 9.04, see

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...solved-750237/