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the wireless adapter is running (wlan0). But you're not yet associated to your wireless network.
I don't know how Debian manages wireless devices, but you'll have to find the program, probably Networkmanager where you can configure for your wireless authentication (ssid, key etc.)
My Vaio has a atheros card built in. It stopped working under windows months ago and ran a USB adapter fine. When Lenny installed it saw the card even with the switch off and the card unable to function. I think I need to disassociate the Atheros from the WLAN and re-install the USB to get it to work but I am not sure how.
It seems that the ath5k module isn't the adequate one for your builtin card, here the helptext from the kernel-sources
Code:
Atheros 5xxx wireless cards support (ATH5K)
CONFIG_ATH5K:
This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
Atheros 5xxx chipset.
Currently the following chip versions are supported:
MAC: AR5211 AR5212
PHY: RF5111/2111 RF5112/2112 RF5413/2413
This driver uses the kernel's mac80211 subsystem.
If you choose to build a module, it'll be called ath5k. Say M if
unsure.
Symbol: ATH5K [=n]
Type : tristate
Prompt: Atheros 5xxx wireless cards support
Defined at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/Kconfig:1
Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && WLAN [=y] && ATH_COMMON [=m] && PCI [=y] && MAC80211 [=y]
Location:
-> Device Drivers
-> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
-> Wireless LAN (WLAN [=y])
-> Atheros Wireless Cards (ATH_COMMON [=m])
Selects: MAC80211_LEDS [=y] && LEDS_CLASS [=y] && NEW_LEDS [=y]
I don't know which module would support the card. Did you check if your laptop has a switch for disabling/enabling the wireless network?
The hardware on the Atheros died.... in windows where it always worked, the switch LED wont come on and neither did
the network. I have used a USB adapter instead the last 6 months because it is cheaper than having the thing worked on.
So I set up Linux on the machine, it sees the card I think, but I really need to get Linu to run on the USB network
adapter. I think Atheros is linked to WLAn setting and is messing up my attempts to get the USB to work? Upon set up,
Linux told me I had a Lan, wlan, and a firewire. Wlan was supposed to be Atheros according o the machine and the ethernet was what I used for the network install.
debianportable:/home/dave# lsusb Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 003: ID 152e:2571 LG (HLDS) Bus 007 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub debianportable:/home/dave# debianportable:/home/dave# debianportable:/home/dave# debianportable:/home/dave# sudo iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 No scan results
Could you please, in addition to the output of the commands, explain what you're doing?
In your first post in this thread it seemed to be only an issue with the authentication at the accesspoint, in your post #10 you don't have wlan0 up. If you don't understand our questions, please ask or read the documentation for your distribution.
You'll need to know how you can configure your wireless adapter for the authentication-data of your wireless network.
Markus
Last edited by markush; 01-16-2011 at 04:47 AM.
Reason: typo
debianportable:/home/dave# lsusb Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 003: ID 152e:2571 LG (HLDS) Bus 007 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub debianportable:/home/dave# debianportable:/home/dave# debianportable:/home/dave# debianportable:/home/dave# sudo iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 No scan results
debianportable:/home/dave#
ok, so it is at least seeing the usb-wifi adapter.
please show us the results of:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:d9:7a:43:fa 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)
I believe the hardware address is the atheros native to the computer and it doesnt work because
the hardware switch is blown... I want the ralink as wlan0 and I believe Atheros occupation of
WLAN is blocking me...
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Installing ralink rt2870 rt3070 on portable
atheros stuff
