Problems with madwifi on Fedora Core 5

biogeek · 10-14-2006, 08:11 PM

I hope I haven't overlooked a similar thread. I am trying to get my wireless card to work on my linux system. Here is the state of things:

distribution: Fedora Core 5
kernel version: 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5
madwifi-0.9.2 and kmod-madwifi-0.9.2 installed using yum (verified with rpm -qa | grep madwifi*)
wireless pci: Belkin F5D7000 ver 5100

/etc/modprobe.conf

Code:

alias eth0 8139too
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-via82xx index=0
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-1 snd-mpu401
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-mpu401 index=1
remove snd-mpu401 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-mpu401
alias ath0 ath_pci
options ath_pci autocreate=sta

/etc/sysconfic/wpa_supplicant

Code:

# wlan0 and wifi0
# INTERFACES="-iwlan0 -iwifi0"
# INTERFACES="-iwlan0" # OLD CODE
# The following is new:
INTERFACES="-iath0"
#
# ndiswrapper and prism
# DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper -Dprism"
# DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper" # OLD CODE
# The following is new:
DRIVERS="-Dmadwifi"

So far, so good. It even show up with lspci:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

However, when I try modprobe ath_pci, I see this:

Code:

FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.

Furthermore, this is what I see with iwconfig:

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

I am at a loss of what exactly this means (other than no working wifi) and would appreciate advice in troubleshooting this.

Thanks!

caffeinebot · 10-17-2006, 01:50 AM

Thats weird- try running lsmod to see what modules are installed. The system can't find the ath module. Maybe its called ath-pci?

JunctaJuvant · 10-17-2006, 06:01 AM

Just curious, but did you reboot after installing the madwifi module? Also, instead of using "-Dmadwifi" in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant you could try using "-Dwext".
I hope that helps.

biogeek · 10-19-2006, 08:55 PM

I did reboot after installing the madwifi module. I tried "-Dwext" in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant without effect.

I didn't see it with lsmod. Here are the results of lsmod:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
autofs4                21701  1
hidp                   16833  2
rfcomm                 37333  0
l2cap                  23873  10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth              47909  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                157309  1
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns     3265  0
ipt_REJECT              5569  1
xt_state                2497  2
ip_conntrack           52597  2 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
nfnetlink               7257  1 ip_conntrack
xt_tcpudp               3393  4
iptable_filter          3265  1
ip_tables              12809  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               14917  4 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
acpi_cpufreq            7497  0
video                  16709  0
button                  6993  0
battery                10053  0
ac                      5189  0
ipv6                  243937  18
lp                     12937  0
parport_pc             27237  1
parport                37129  2 lp,parport_pc
usblp                  14401  0
tuner                  50937  0
i2c_viapro              8789  0
cx8800                 33741  0
nvidia               4555796  12
cx88xx                 61285  1 cx8800
ir_common              27333  1 cx88xx
i2c_algo_bit            8905  1 cx88xx
video_buf              26181  2 cx8800,cx88xx
tveeprom               14673  1 cx88xx
via_ircc               21461  0
snd_via82xx            28377  1
gameport               16201  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         92257  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus            2625  1 snd_ac97_codec
i2c_core               22209  6 tuner,i2c_viapro,nvidia,cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom
snd_seq_dummy           4165  0
8139cp                 22977  0
snd_seq_oss            32705  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7745  1 snd_seq_oss
uhci_hcd               23885  0
8139too                27073  0
mii                     5697  2 8139cp,8139too
snd_seq                53553  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
ehci_hcd               32461  0
snd_pcm_oss            40017  0
snd_mixer_oss          17729  1 snd_pcm_oss
floppy                 58437  0
snd_pcm                83781  3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
v4l2_common            15553  2 tuner,cx8800
serio_raw               7621  0
snd_timer              24516  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10569  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         8769  1 snd_via82xx
irda                  115705  1 via_ircc
compat_ioctl32          1601  1 cx8800
snd_rawmidi            25665  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          9037  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    55237  13 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10017  1 snd
v4l1_compat            12485  1 cx8800
btcx_risc               5193  2 cx8800,cx88xx
videodev                9537  2 cx8800,cx88xx
crc_ccitt               2369  1 irda
dm_snapshot            18669  0
dm_zero                 2241  0
dm_mirror              22801  0
dm_mod                 59737  10 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ext3                  129609  3
jbd                    57813  1 ext3

JunctaJuvant · 10-20-2006, 12:04 AM

The ath_pci module is clearly not loaded, I think it is more likely something did not go well with the installation of the module. You could try making sure that SELinux is not the problem, by disabling it and then rebooting. But I have used Fedora Core 5 myself with madwifi, and IIRC all I did was enable the "livna" repository, and then executed "yum install madwifi". This automatically installed the correct version, and anything else required to use the module.
I hope that helps.