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On 11/25/06, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 26 Nov 2006, at 02:01, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > ... |
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> > I do have the ath_pci driver and I can modprobe it successfully: |
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> > Sector9 ~ # modprobe ath_pci |
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> > Sector9 ~ # lsmod |
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> > Module Size Used by |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > ath_pci 72800 0 |
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> > ath_rate_sample 10880 1 ath_pci |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > ath_hal 189264 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample |
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> > <SNIP>Sector9 ~ # |
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> > I don't see any errors in dmesg, or even any messages. |
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> > Since I cannot get ndiswrapper working how would I go about getting |
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> > ath_pci to work? |
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> What card do you actually have? IMO NDISwrapper is a last resort for |
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> cards that have no native support & for users who cannot afford a |
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> supported card. |
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I completely agree. |
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> You should certainly be using madwifi or madwifi-ng |
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> (the driver which provides ath_pci, IIRC) if your card supports it. |
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> What does `lspic -vt` say? |
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I assume you meant lspci: |
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Sector9 ~ # lspci -vt |
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-[0000:00]-+-00.0 nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge |
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+-00.1 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 |
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+-00.2 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 |
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+-00.3 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 |
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+-00.4 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 |
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+-00.5 nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge |
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+-00.6 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 |
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+-00.7 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 |
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+-02.0-[0000:01]-- |
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+-04.0-[0000:02]-- |
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+-05.0 nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge |
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+-09.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge |
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+-0a.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge |
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+-0a.1 nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus |
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+-0a.2 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 |
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+-0b.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller |
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+-0b.1 nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller |
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+-0d.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE |
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+-0e.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller |
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+-0f.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller |
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+-10.0-[0000:03]--+-08.0 Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX |
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| \-0a.0 Atheros Communications, Inc. |
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AR5005G 802.11abg NIC |
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+-10.1 nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio |
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+-14.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller |
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+-18.0 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] |
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HyperTransport Technology Configuration |
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+-18.1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] |
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Address Map |
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+-18.2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] |
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DRAM Controller |
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\-18.3 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] |
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Miscellaneous Control |
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Sector9 ~ # |
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> What does `iwconfig` say? |
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Actually, this is interesting and (so far) unexplained. I did not |
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intentionally ask the system to load ath_pci but it has done that. It |
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appears that ath_pci may have grabbed to hardware and hence stopped |
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ndiswrapper from using the card? No wonder I'm told that wlan0 doesn't |
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exist! |
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Sector9 ~ # iwconfig |
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lo no wireless extensions. |
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eth0 no wireless extensions. |
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eth1 no wireless extensions. |
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wifi0 no wireless extensions. |
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ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" |
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Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated |
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Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 |
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Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off |
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Encryption key:off |
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Power Management:off |
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Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm |
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Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 |
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Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 |
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Sector9 ~ # |
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So, then I have two questions: |
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1) What is the proper way to configure this card using ath0, assuming |
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it actually is supported? |
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2) If the above data is about my card then why isn't is coming up |
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802.11g? I get .11g support from ndiswrapper, or did when it |
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worked...) |
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I do have madwifi installed but I'm not intentionally trying to run |
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it, as far as I know: |
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Sector9 ~ # eix -I madwifi |
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* net-wireless/madwifi-ng |
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Available versions: 0.0.1443.20060207 0.0.1531.20060427 0.9.2 |
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Installed: 0.9.2 |
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Homepage: http://www.madwifi.org/ |
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Description: Next Generation driver for Atheros based |
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IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN cards |
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* net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools |
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Available versions: 0.0.1443.20060207 0.0.1531.20060427 ~0.9.1 |
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~0.9.2_rc1692 0.9.2 |
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Installed: 0.9.2 |
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Homepage: http://www.madwifi.org/ |
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Description: Next Generation tools for configuration of |
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Atheros based IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN cards |
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Found 2 matches. |
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Sector9 ~ # |
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Sector9 ~ # rc-update show |
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alsasound | default |
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bootmisc | boot |
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checkfs | boot |
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checkroot | boot |
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clock | boot |
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consolefont | boot |
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cupsd | default |
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hostname | boot |
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hotplug | default |
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keymaps | boot |
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local | default nonetwork |
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localmount | boot |
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modules | boot |
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net.lo | boot |
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net.wlan0 | default |
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netmount | default |
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ntpd | default |
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rmnologin | boot |
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sshd | default |
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syslog-ng | default |
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urandom | boot |
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vixie-cron | default |
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xdm | default |
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Sector9 ~ # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 |
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# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: kernel modules to load when system boots. |
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# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels. |
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# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system |
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# starts into this file, one per line. Comments begin with # and |
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# are ignored. Read man modules.autoload for additional details. |
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# For example: |
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# 3c59x |
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#forcedeth |
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ndiswrapper |
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agpgart |
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nvidia-agp |
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#tulip |
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Sector9 ~ # |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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