Hi all,
For the past year or so i have been using the Madwifi drivers to get my Atheros based PCMCIA card to work (i have an integrated broadcom that i use for back up like in this case). I have wanted to move away from the Madwifi drivers and more to the kernel supported ATH5k. I am running kernel 2.6.25.4 and have the required wireless bit set to <y>.
The module loads without a problem but for some reason my card cannot detect any APs.
lspci -vnn
Code:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. TRENDnet TEW-443PI Wireless PCI Adapter [168c:2051]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ath5k_pci
Dmesg | grep ath
Code:
ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0: registered as 'phy1'
ath5k phy1: Atheros AR5213A chip found (MAC: 0x79, PHY: 0x45)
ath5k phy1: RF2112A 2GHz radio found (0x56)
ifconfig
Code:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:d1:3a:8d:b0
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)
wlan2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4b:ac:b2:e5
inet addr:10.10.50.25 Bcast:10.10.50.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4607 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1870 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1382703 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:345333 (337.2 KiB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-90-4B-AC-B2-E5-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wmaster1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-14-D1-3A-8D-B0-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
iwconfig
Code:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan2 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate=2 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=83/100 Signal level=-49 dBm Noise level=-65 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
wmaster1 no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
the device in question is WLAN1, Wlan2 is my broadcom card.
Any ideas on how to get this working?
Thanks