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Hi everyone,
Thanks for reading this. I have Arch Linux installed on a Thinkpad T400. It has two wireless devices installed. The first device came with it: A realtek 8172, which as of right now has zero linux support. The second is an Atheros 5001 which I purchased and installed.
First let me say that I've blacklisted both ath5k and ath9k.
I'm done: sudo rmmod ath_pci and then sudo modprobe ath_pci
I've made sure that the card is up. I can see it in iwconfig and ifconfig as ath0, but when I scan from it I get no results and it fails to connect.
iwlist scan:
[user@sleeve-eater ~]$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wifi0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
ath0 No scan results
(sudo iwlist scan returns the same results.)
ifconfig ath0
[user@sleeve-eater ~]$ ifconfig ath0
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:D9:77:73:E4
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:d9ff:fe77:73e4/64 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)
iwconfig ath0
[user@sleeve-eater ~]$ iwconfig ath0
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Wireless Network" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
lscpi | grep Netw
[user@sleeve-eater ~]$ lspci | grep Netw
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)
If you look at the iwconfig output, it shows -96db. Could that honestly be right? Thank you for reading any input to help me fix this would be most appreciated.
Last edited by sharpie (2009-10-14 09:22:24)
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sorry for solving your current issue but i just finished installing a NATIVE linux driver for the rtl8192 nic! right now im using debian sid with the latest kernel release, so i think it'll work just fine under arch.
Im currently testing it... so im not sure if has any problems or so.
http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/showthr … p=1729266/ english reference
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/401126 german reference
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35607918/ … 009.tar.gz
I hope this helps
Cheers !
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