Arch Linux

josomebody

Member

Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 190

Atheros 5007eg suddenly can't find networks [Somewhat Solved]

I had to do a clean install today after cooking a root partition and got to try out the Overlord install image. I got everything working pretty quick, but my wireless is being really weird. I got it to work at one point with ndiswrapper, then suddenly after a reboot it stopped working. Installed madwifi for the wlan module, loaded that, and it worked again. Set up net-profiles, reboot, stopped working again. Decided to try patched madwifi. ath0 and wifi0 come up. Scanning with ath0 brings up nothing. I'd really like to get it working with madwifi just to avoid ndiswrapper anymore if possible, and ndiswrapper is giving me exactly the same problem. Am I missing something stupid here?

From rc.conf:

MODULES=(r8169 !ath5k ath_hal ath_pci wlan !ndiswrapper snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss sn
d-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(eth0 ath0)
NETWORKS=(wep eth any)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @network @netfs @crond)

The network profile I'm trying to use:

CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection"
INTERFACE=ath0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wep"
ESSID="jotv"
KEY="a bunch of numbers"
IP="dhcp"

Any dmesg I could imagine would be helpful:

ath_hal: 0.10.2.2-ATHEROS (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425)
ath_pci: trunk
MadWifi: ath_attach: Switching rfkill capability off
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (trunk)
MadWifi: ath_attach: Switching per-packet transmit power control off
wifi0: ath_announce: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: ath_announce: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: ath_announce: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: ath_announce: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: ath_announce: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: ath_announce: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros 5424/2424: mem=0xf8000000, irq=18
ath0: no IPv6 routers present

iwconfig:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wifi0     no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"jotv"  Nickname:"jotv"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:48C8-2232-DEEC-B678-CB06-B548-23   Security mode:restricted
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-101 dBm  Noise level=-101 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

and ifconfig lines for the relevant devices:

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:E1:7A:0D:4D  
          inet6 addr: fe80::21f:e1ff:fe7a:d4d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-1F-E1-7A-0D-4D-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:416 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:195 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:19864 (19.3 Kb)
          Interrupt:18

So anybody know what could keep the card from finding anything with iwlist ath0 scan with this setup? Especially when it did a couple of times and then quit suddenly? My wifi router is up and about a foot away, and nothing hardware-wise has changed since it last worked.

EDIT: ok suddenly reboot and it works again. I'm not marking this solved until I'm positive it's gonna stay working now and net-profiles are up to par with where they were yesterday before I hosed my system.

Last edited by josomebody (2008-07-13 05:40:55)

---

: () { : | :& } ;:

SyXbiT

Member

From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 177

Website

Re: Atheros 5007eg suddenly can't find networks [Somewhat Solved]

i have 2 questions.
does ath5k replace both ath_pci and ath_hal?
i assume installing madwifi installs both ath_pci and ath_hal, but shouldn't ath5k be installed by default, since it's mainline (i get a 'ath5k module not found' on boot)
i also get a 'wlan module not found' on boot. how can i install that?

josomebody

Member

Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 190

Re: Atheros 5007eg suddenly can't find networks [Somewhat Solved]

I got wlan, ath5k, ath_pci and ath_hal with the madwifi package I'm pretty sure. I got 'wlan module not found' when I didn't have madwifi installed, and it went away after I installed it. Not sure if ath5k replaces one or both of the others, But I'm also not sure if it's useable or not yet. I haven't had any luck with it.

---

: () { : | :& } ;:

edge-t

Member

Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 7

Re: Atheros 5007eg suddenly can't find networks [Somewhat Solved]

I'm pretty new to linux, but I missed this the last time. Have you tried:

ifconfig ath0 up

Gullible Jones

Member

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Atheros 5007eg suddenly can't find networks [Somewhat Solved]

Wait a minute, how did you even get madwifi to work for your card? Currently it's not supposed to work at all, and neither is ath5k.

edge-t

Member

Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 7

Re: Atheros 5007eg suddenly can't find networks [Somewhat Solved]

Wait a minute, how did you even get madwifi to work for your card? Currently it's not supposed to work at all, and neither is ath5k.

I think there's a patch for the madwifi drivers: http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679

josomebody

Member

Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 190

Re: Atheros 5007eg suddenly can't find networks [Somewhat Solved]

Yeah I built the patched version.

---

: () { : | :& } ;: