Wireless Newbie Problem:Madwifi

newinlinux · 02-16-2005, 09:52 AM

Hi All,
I am changing from debian to gentoo and now slackware, trying to get my hp nc4010 atheros wireless lan working. Followed quite a bit from this guide:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=45

But still got these:
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:0A:80

E:6B
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:1051 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1051
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Memory:dfde0000-dfdf0000

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:85:86:71:0B
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3001 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1391 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1582420 (1.5 Mb) TX bytes:194611 (190.0 Kb)
Interrupt:10

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)

But my dmesg look promising:

tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
ath_pci: 0.9.4.12 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0CA] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 radio 1.7
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:11:0a:80:de:6b
ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x98080000, irq=5

My iwconfig shows these:
eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

dummy0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"gen2"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:11:0A:80

E:6B
Bit Rate:0kb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry

ff RTS thr

ff Fragment thr

ff
Encryption key:BE65-8125-59 Security mode:restricted
Power Management

ff
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

And finally my lspci:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7114 (rev 20)
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7114 (rev 20)
00:0b.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7110
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
00:12.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:12.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:12.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M

Anyone have any clue why i just couldnt get online?

Thanks in advance.

PS:I have my kernel(2.6.10) wireless related setting all enabled.

darkRoom · 02-16-2005, 10:54 AM

Hi,
Is the access point also your router ? If so try this, (substitute the IP with the internal IP of your router)

Code:

ifconfig ath0 down
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 
ifconfig ath0 up

hope that helps

newinlinux · 02-16-2005, 06:20 PM

darkRoom, thanks for responding. But please forgive me as I dont really understand what you meant by "Is the access point also your router", being a wireless newbie, I will still try out your suggestion anyway. I will post back the result only tonight when I reach home.

My set up is like this:

one cable modem, one dlink 624+ router. the router are supposed to support 1 pc wired, 1 pc wireless and 1 notebook wireless(my current problem). The 2 winXP pcs are all nice except my notebook.

Thanks.