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ondo

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Registered: 2009-08-08

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[solved]problem with atheros after udev upgrade

Hello, It seems that since the upgrade of udev from 141-3 to 141-5 on my computer, the system can't find the atheros device.

ifconfig ath0 up gives the message "no such device".

Another thing weird is that now i have a wlan0 interface available, but i can't use it.
iwlist wlan0 scan give me the right list of wireless networks, but i can't ping my router when I connect to it with wpa_supplicant.

Anybody met a similar problem?

Last edited by ondo (2009-08-09 13:42:05)

Tree_Climber

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Re: [solved]problem with atheros after udev upgrade

I have the same problem but I can't get mine to show up at all.

djszapi

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Re: [solved]problem with atheros after udev upgrade

Welcome to the forum ondo!

With this version of udev, atheros chipset works here.
Did you try to use wicd, networkmanager, or from console ? Does it work if you give a try to open connection?

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ondo

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Registered: 2009-08-08

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Re: [solved]problem with atheros after udev upgrade

I tried with netcfg-auto-wireless and with console using

iwconfig wlan0 essid myssid
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Apparently the connection succeed. I have a message "CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connected to ..." but i can't ping the router.
If i use dhcp, it fail getting the ip with a timeout.

Do you still have the ath0 interface djszapi or does it work for you with wlan0?

Last edited by ondo (2009-08-09 12:35:32)

ondo

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Re: [solved]problem with atheros after udev upgrade

Duh, it works now.
I'm wondering what happened, i downgraded udev to udev 141-3 and initscripts, reupgraded initscripts, then udev(maybe pacman between them) and now it works ^^.
I compared the packages maybe the upgrade of pacman was for something. Maybe the different scripts from /lib/udev wasn't there.