MadWIFI and FC3 [WAS: FC3, Linuxant, stock kernel (2.6.9-1.667) and 4k stacks]

Don Levey fedora-list at the-leveys.us
Thu Nov 11 03:08:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 16:03, Satish Balay wrote:

> Ok - your experience with MADWIFI is a year old :). Trying the current
> CVS shouldn't cost you much time.

> cvs co madwifi (or grab snapshot from        
> http://madwifi.otaku42.de/2004/11/)
> make
> make install
> modprobe ath_pci
>
>...
> Also, on this list - there are plenty of posts about these cards with
> model numbers (but not rev numbers). I'd rather have them post the
> 'lspci or cardctl ident' for them.
> 
> BTW: What does 'cardctl ident' say for your cards?
> 
> Satish
> 
> ---
> [asterix]: lspci
> 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC (rev 01)
> 
> 

So... I got home, downloaded and compiled/installed madwifi according to
the instructions in the README file they included.  Didn't seem that
there was much to it, really.  However, as far as I can tell it isn't
working, and I'm not getting an error.

Here's the output from 'lspci' and 'cardctl ident':

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

***

Socket 0:
  product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", "Wireless LAN
Reference Card", "00"
  manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012
  function: 6 (network)

and from dmesg:
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.12.14 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212)
wlan: 0.8.4.4 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath_rate_onoe: no version for "ether_sprintf" found: kernel tainted.
ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
ath_pci: 0.9.4.11 (EXPERIMENTAL)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
divert: allocating divert_blk for ath0
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:0f:3d:52:7f:f0
ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x10800000, irq=11


So I know the system knows it's there.  However, after running 'ifconfig ath0 up' I get:
ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:3D:52:7F:F0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:292 errors:39 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:39
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
          RX bytes:36017 (35.1 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11 Memory:12b00000-12b10000

It's there - but I get no IP address, and I can't connect out using it.
Any ideas what I've missed?  I may go back to the Linuxant loaders, just because they claim to have a solution that will work for me, but I'd rather not...
Thanks,
 -Don




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