Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless help?

[Stroller]

On 1 Dec 2007, at 06:32, Grant wrote:

> I'm trying to set up a new laptop's wireless interface.  lspci says it
> has an Atheros AR5006EG which should mean the madwifi drivers.  I
> emerged madwifi-ng and madwifi-ng-tools, created net.ath0 as a link to
> net.lo, and set the ath_pci module to autoload (which it does without
> errors) but I get:
>
> network interface ath0 does not exist
> Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver)
>
> when trying to start net.ath0.  Does this sound like a driver support
> problem or did I miss something?  ifconfig only shows eth0 and lo.
> iwconfig shows, eth0, lo, and sit0.  I don't know what sit0 is.

Hi there,

Madwifi is different from all (I think) of the other Linux wireless  
drivers in that it requires use of the wlanconfig command.

EG:
   wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta

See also: http://madwifi.org/users-guide/node14.html

When posting about wireless issues you really need to post the OUTPUT  
of `iwconfig` also.
EG:
   iwconfig wlan0 enc aaaaaaaaaa mode managed essid driveon channel 7
   <http://www.newlinuxuser.com/howto-use-iwconfig/>

If you're unable to connect to the net then copy the output textfile  
to a connected machine using a USB key or floppy disk.

It seems, however, that you're not alone in having problems with this  
card: <http://www.google.com/search?q=madwifi+AR5006EG>. It looks to  
me that if you use the latest version of the madwifi drivers then you  
may be successful, but you may find madwifi's own mailing lists more  
helpful. I don't think you need to use NDISwrapper, although I have  
to confess that I am slightly religious on this matter.

Stroller.

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