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Coume
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 Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:44 am Post subject: Wireless ath0 bringing me crazy, even after the HOW-TO |
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Hello,
I followed the Ubelord guide to get wireless working: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435
So I'm using kernel 2.6.8-R3
I use baselayout 1.11.0 as mentionned in the guide.
The etc-update did update the /etc/conf.d/net (but I don't have anymore a /etc/conf.d/net.lo)
As metionned in the guide, I made symlink to create net.eth1 and net.ath0
| Quote: | lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18 Sep 26 10:01 /etc/init.d/net.ath0 -> /etc/init.d/net.lo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15068 Sep 26 09:49 /etc/init.d/net.eth0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18 Sep 26 10:01 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 -> /etc/init.d/net.lo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15068 Sep 26 09:49 /etc/init.d/net.lo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4697 Sep 11 00:59 /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 |
My WG511T do have some activities when I plug it, I get the gkrellm wifi plugin activating and I do see it using ifconfig:
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ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:98:ED:F7
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1824 (1.7 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Memory:d7c93000-d7ca3000
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:02:2D:89:F8
inet addr:192.168.0.11 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:641 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:727960 (710.8 Kb) TX bytes:48236 (47.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:200 (200.0 b) TX bytes:200 (200.0 b)
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My iwconfig is correct, good essid, right channel, ...
| Quote: | ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"NETGEAR_FILESERVER" Nickname:"NETGEAR_FILESERVER"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.462 GHz Cell: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=38/94 Signal level=-57 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 |
Oh and finally, I do have read the /etc/conf.d/wireless.example, modified it and save it as /etc/conf.d/wireless (and as /etc/conf.d/net.ath0)
but when I do: "/etc/init.d/net.ath0 start" it does search and I get that
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* Loading networking modules...
* modules: wireless ifconfig adsl dhcpcd
* ifconfig provides interface
* dhcpcd provides dhcp ok
* Configuring wireless network for ath0
* Connecting to "any" (WEP Disabled)... !!
* ath0 connected as "NETGEAR_FILESERVER"
* in ad-hoc mode on channel 11 (WEP disabled)
* Bringing ath0 up...
* Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming dhcp
* ath0 dhcp !! |
I feel that I close from having this damned laptop using the Wifi connexion, but I don't know what to do next  I read so many HOw-TO and websites; I have no clue what I shoudl do next 
Thxs in advance
Ludo
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BiOCHiP
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Location: Amsterdam
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It seems you don't have added the entries for your ath0 device in /etc/conf.d/net and you don't have a DHCP server. Try duplicating the eth0 lines in /etc/conf.d/net, replacing eth0 with ath0 and replacing the ip and stuff with some sane alternative. I don't have any experience with this, but you might even incorporate the values you've put in /etc/conf.d/net.ath0 in /etc/conf.d/net.
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ewtrowbr
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Location: Columbus, OH
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I have your same card, and same kernel. I am further than you in resolving this, but still don't have everyhting 100% working.
If you like, you can try my net.ath0 script. It works well, gets me a DHCP address, etc. I notice you are running at 'rate 0' and 'sens 0/3' which may be a problem. make sure you have iface_ath0="dhcp" in /etc/conf.d/net. The script is at http://mail.nois.net/net.ath0.txt
modprobe ath_hal
modprobe wlan
modprobe ath_pci
lsmod (to be sure)
/etc/init.d/net.ath0
My issue is much more troubling... intermittant connectivity... It seems that everything is working, but when I connect to the WAP, I get dropped for a few seconds every minute. It's very frustrating. I'm so very close to being happy with the card and driver. I think that the problem has to do with an IRQ conflict between my PCMCIA and Wireless Card, but i don't know what to do about it. I have put good info on my system at
http://mail.nois.net/Atheros_Problem.txt .
Maybe some guru will help me out...
BTW, my wap works fine with an older prism card I have laying around and a similar startup script.
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