Activating/enabling wifi one Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1650g

aerozolic · 03-26-2006, 05:08 AM

Hello,

I've got Fedora Core 5 and the laptop in the subject. I've installed madwifi driver and it finds my Atheros 5005g integrated card as AR5212. Checking modprobe gives me ath_pci, wlan and ath_hal.
To me it seems that the problem is the device itself. Even if I set the wireless device to start on boot from BIOS, the led still won't when booting to FC5. The problem is that this laptop has only programmed buttons to activate the device. In windows the Fn keys work fine and i can switch on my wireless but in Fedora they're not working. There's also three buttons next to the power button which also works only with a specific driver.
Is there a possibility to get the wireless to work? Otherwise there's no point for FC5 on my laptop

Code:

 ifconfig
ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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:200
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:16 Memory:f8980000-f8990000

Code:

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          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.

kaz2100 · 03-28-2006, 10:26 AM

What happens

Code:

iwlist ath0 scan

?

It looks like that interface is okay and that you are not connected to access point.

glum8 · 04-26-2006, 09:50 AM

I have the same problem, but I have got stuck a bit further. You have to specify option rfkill=0 when loading kernel module:

modprobe ath_pci rfkill=0

This will turn wireless radio on. Than you will be able to scan you wireless neigborhood. Unfortunelly, i have no luck to associate any access point

maczo · 02-26-2007, 12:10 PM

Hi, did anyone of you manage to connect to AP since above discussion started ?

I am struggling with the same problem currently and would appreciate good hints...