Atheros wireless can detect access point but won't associate

[theroyale]

After installing madwifi-ng and wpa_supplicant I have tried to get my Atheros wireless card on my thinkpad z60t to work to no avail. The ath0 interface shows up fine and 'iwlist ath0 scan' shows the access points in my area.

However, when I try:
modprobe ath_pci
iwconfig ath0 essid "my-ssid" key my-key
ifconfig ath0 up

dhcpcd ath0

it just sits there with no errors until I stop it, not associating or getting an ip address.

What could be going wrong here and what additional information would be helpful for me to post?


Not sure if this helps, but here is my /etc/conf.d/net:

config_eth0=("dhcp")
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5 -d"

# Prefer wpa_supplicant over wireless-tools
preup() {
if [[ ${IFACE} == "ath0" ]] ; then
# Some atheros cards need an extra up
# NOTE: the card is upped a few times anyway, so this *should* be redundant interface_up "${IFACE}"
# Maybe give it time to settle
sleep 2
fi
}

modules_eth0=( "ifconfig" )
modules_ath0=( "wpa_supplicant" )
modules_ath0=( "!iwconfig" )

#modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_timeout_ath0=60

wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi -dd -Kt -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
wpa_timeout_ath0=120

Thanks in advance.

[bunkacid]

Make sure you have wpa_supplicant compiled with support for atheros/madwifi in the USE flags.
You don't need any postup/postdown stuff.

Here is what I have for my atheros card. it works just fine.

[theroyale]

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I have "madwifi" as part of my USE flag in my make.conf so I believe support for the atheros card was compiled when I emerged wpa_supplicant. Please correct me if this is wrong.

I changed my /etc/conf.d/net as you suggested except for this addition:

[bunkacid]

What version of dhcpcd are you using?

Does it work OK with wired ethernet connections?

[theroyale]

I am running dhcpcd version 2.0.5-r1.

It does work for my wired connection when I do:

[bunkacid]

please provide some logs of your wireless cards DHCP operation.

[pele_smk]

give dhclient a shot. You can actively view connection attempts and see if authentication is complete, failed, retries...Associated, but then kicks off,etc...I had the latter issue and dhclient helped me identify it.
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[zoni]

Are you sure it has associated correctly yet? Can you list some output of

[UberLord]

You can also verify assoication with

[Dridde]

I have exactly the same problem with my atheros-wireless card. Loading the ath_pci module works, the ath0 device shows up...

iwlist scan shows me my ap around...

[zoni]

[Dridde]

Thanks zoni, I tried this config and now I get an other output. My /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf now looks like yours

[zoni]

I'm not sure what the problem is. Does dmesg reveal anything?

[Dridde]

nothing that looks suspicious..

modprobe -r ath_pci
and
modprobe ath_pci

gives the following:

[Dridde]

ARGH! I'm so stupid sometimes...

I googled a bit more and found something on madwifi.org about module-loading problems...

After following the advice to check possible errors I found out that there were errors loading the "wlan_tkip" module... so there seems to be errors in the module dependancy tree... loading them manually in the right order fixes everything up... i'm writing this via wpa wlan ;)

stupid mistake ;)

[zoni]

Great. I'm glad it works now.