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miesnerd

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From: Texan by birth, TN by paycheck

Registered: 2008-02-17

Posts: 94

wireless still not working

I installed the drivers. I have an atheros card. I'll try to post all the pertinent info for you guys. What happens is that when I open something like Kwifi manager it acts like the wireless is up, but it will time out if it tries to scan for networks.

Now to the pertinent things.
from lspci:
05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)

from ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:B8:8D:3F:8E
          inet addr:192.168.0.4  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:b8ff:fe8d:3f8e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
          RX packets:3725 errors:0 dropped:83 overruns:0 frame:83
          TX packets:3480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3247017 (3.0 Mb)  TX bytes:712552 (695.8 Kb)
          Interrupt:18

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:700 (700.0 b)  TX bytes:700 (700.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:85:C8:1E:B1
          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)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-14-85-C8-1E-B1-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          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)

btw, I have no idea how wmaster0 got there.
Kwifimanager definitely thinks its using wlan0.

and from iwconfig:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=0 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

sorry to pull such a noob thing here. Ive tried to get it working following the guides and am still stumped why its not going.
Oh, and I did already do pacman -S madwifi.

miesnerd

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From: Texan by birth, TN by paycheck

Registered: 2008-02-17

Posts: 94

Re: wireless still not working

bump because I still havent found an answer for this.
Really dont want to take arch off, but my laptop's no good if the wifi isnt working.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: wireless still not working

i don't have your card but i wanna told you a hint. try to change to topic name with an relevant one. eg. "Wireless doesn't work - atheros"

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hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: wireless still not working

Hard to guess what could be messed up with the info provided...
Please try to get connected via ifconfig, iwconfig and the like instead of any gui tools. Hopefully, you will get some more descriptive error messages you could post then.
BTW, with my atheros card madwifi creates the interfaces ath0 and wifi0. Are you really sure the madwifi driver (ath_pci) gets loaded?

EDIT: just realized that there is ath5k, which will eventually replace madwifi (and uses wmaster0 and wlan0). you could try to blacklist ath5k, like suggested in the linked thread, to get madwifi to work. You can check which modules are loaded with lsmod

Last edited by hokasch (2008-06-08 12:40:05)