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Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 135

[solved]ath0 not showing up

I've been using gentoo for quite a few years on my laptop and decided to try something different since a source-based distribution is better suited for my desktop.

I have an AR5212 chipset for my wireless card, which uses the madwifi driver, this is the ath_pci module is it not? I included wireless_tools in my installation and my /etc/rc.conf includes ath_pci ath_hal wlan and ath5k in it's MODULES section.

I know they are loaded as well through lsmod, however when I run iwconfig, i only get  lo and eth0, no ath0. (eth0 is my wired connection)

any help would be appreciated

Last edited by Cryptix_00 (2008-07-17 02:26:42)

josomebody

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Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 190

Re: [solved]ath0 not showing up

Not positive, but I think you need ath_pci and ath_hal, and should put a ! before ath5k.

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Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 135

Re: [solved]ath0 not showing up

thanks! that created the interface fine. i have been setting up the connection in /etc/rc.conf for interface ath0 with my usual network settings (i plan on using a different method to manage my connection after i get one so i can install some utilities). but i seem to only be able to ping to my router and not anything beyond my gateway

live4nothing

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Registered: 2008-07-12

Posts: 12

Re: [solved]ath0 not showing up

It happened similar to me. I got the interface up and be able to ping the router, but no internet. To fix it, I simply run dhcpcd with that interface and it works fine

Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 135

Re: [solved]ath0 not showing up

i added my gateway to /etc/resolv.conf and it's working great now