Gentoo 2.6.28 kernel and wireless for EEE-PC 1000HA
 

Hi!

I will try to be the most precise as possible in my explanation, hopefully someone here can help me.

I don't have a vast experience with wireless troubleshooting, since I bought a laptop (actually a netbook) for the very first time, but I know how linux work.
Well, as the subject suggest, I got an "eee-pc 1000HA", it comes with WindowsXP but I also installed Gentoo Linux on it, now I have dual-boot but I cannot have my wireless working.

The chipset I really don't know if it's a AR5006EG or a AR5007EG,. When I boot using WindowsXP I get AR5007EG but booting by the 2.6.28 linux kernel I get AR5006EG. :confused:
The only thing I'm sure is that it's a pci-express card.

I also have been searching for some documentation to know if my card could work with the ATH5K kernel driver, some say yes it work, some say that I should use the madwifi drivers.

For the first time I have tried ATH5K and I could find my home access point but couldn't connect to it. I have used "iwlist wlan0 scan" and then I got a list of the networks, now I can't even do it. At the moment I just get it "wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down".

I will copy and paste a part of my kernel config file, maybe someone can find something wrong on it.


Now my lspci output related to my wireless card:
lsmod output:
iwconfig output:
iwpriv output:
So, does anyone here owns the same chipset as I do, use ath5k on 2.6.28 kernel and it works properly?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I have seen a couple posts where that chip has a tendency to misreport itself as 5006..
I would say it is actually the ar5007 and you need the open_HAL driver to make it work
(Same wireless chip is in my Acer Aspire One netbook)

Link for driver and instructions are here:
http://madwifi-project.org/ticket/1192

I use the ath_pci and ath_hal modules with mine. .works flawlessly connecting to wpa2 AP

also using wicd to handle config in the GUI, works great.


Also might want to look at the Gentoo ath5XXX page..

Farslayer: Excuse me, but are you using the version 0.9.5 or 0.9.4 of madwifi?

In the case it's the current version, then is this the right file to download?
http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org...current.tar.gz

Thanks in advance.

no I am using the madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 driver downloaded from the link I provided.. 9.4 and 9.5 do not work properly with the ar5007..

Hi again! (after a long time)

So, I really don't know what else I can do to fix it.

I just downloaded the madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz, compiled and installed everything according to the manual.

I got all the needed modules up, as it follows:

But I don't have the ath0:

After check "dmesg", I just saw it:
Then when I try creating it, I get:


So I don't know what to do, it seems like nobody else fell on the same problem, therefore I cannot find a solution.

Even if I try to list for any AP, it doesn't works:



Thanks in advance.