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What do you mean by "it doesn't work" ? The output of iwconfig is correct, you just have to enter connection settings in proper place. It would be useful to know what your distro is and what type of connection you intend to use.
No matter what settings I enter using iwconfig, the wireless device never associates with an access point. I've set the essid, key, management, etc. There are no errors showing up in dmeg or /var/log/messages. I don't know where to look next.
interface doesn't support scanning. network is down
, do
Code:
ifconfig ath0 up
and try again.
the result should show at least your network. if it shows nothing, there's the problem.
second, please post
Code:
lsmod |grep ath
and
Code:
lspci |grep Ath
. maybe you don't have madwifi driver, but ath5k, which is included in newer kernels, but also is a piece of crap
third, tell us what kind of security do you use: WEP or WPA? if it's WPA, you must configure wpa_supplicant, if it's WEP, iwconfig is sufficient, but wpa_supplicant handles also WEP encryption and does it way better.
Here is my output. I do have madWifi installed and (I think) I blacklisted ath5k.
according to lsmod output that's right.
Quote:
~/ar @heirich-laptop> iwlist ath0 scan
ath0 No scan results
here's the problem - card can't detect any network so there's nothing to connect to.
Quote:
~/ar @heirich-laptop> lspci | grep Ath
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
madwifi.org shows that the chip is supported, modules are loaded ok, strange. maybe your networks have hidden SSID - if so, change it and try again iwlist command. i'm running out of ideas, but please post
Code:
lspci -vv
output, but only the part concerning Atheros chip.
ok, my two last ideas:
A
1. remove madwifi
2. download http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi...0080801.tar.gz this version and install (unpack, cd to directory, make, make install) it.
3. check whether ath0 is available and whether iwlist shows anything.
B
try to check with some other distro's live cd, like ubuntu 8.04 - this card should work out of the box in theory.
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