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tronica

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 121

Atheros wireless not working

I have an acer 3680 laptop with an atheros  wifi card which has the ar5005g chpset. I know its supported under linux because it works perfect under ubuntu and sabayon. The problem is those distros don't require any setup. So in arch i'm lost. I installed madwifi, Heres what i added to rc.conf

#
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
ath0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0 ath0)
#
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa gdm hal dhcdbd networkmanager)

heres what i added to /etc/conf.d/wireless

wlan_ath0="ath0 essid 2WIRE748 key xxxxxxxxxx"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ath0)

When i do ifconfig ath0 is not there, nor iwconfig. I just don't have a clue. any ideas.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Atheros wireless not working

I've setup my atheros wireless card by installing madwifi and adding this to rc.conf:

ath0="ath0 192.168.###.### netmask 255.255.###.### broadcast 192.168.###.###"
wlan_ath0="ath0 essid ###### key ######"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ath0)
INTERFACES=(lo ath0)

And I added "network" to my daemons array and "ath_pci" to the modules array. I never fiddled with those wireless files, I think it's easier to put it all in rc.conf like I'd do for any network card.

Of course you need to replace the "#" by your specific stuff (which you can grab from ubuntu if you don't know them).

Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2007-06-26 20:46:39)

tronica

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 121

Re: Atheros wireless not working

Hey thanks. That did the trick.

tronica

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 121

Re: Atheros wireless not working

one last question, I want to use networkmanager, i have it installed, however when i add nm-applet to session's it doesn't load on startup. how do i get it to load on startup

tronica

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 121

Re: Atheros wireless not working

nevermind.