madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards
PH mooraa
phmooraa at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 18:57:18 UTC 2008
Just for someone's good, I am mentioning how the problem was solved..
what - atheros AR5413 (ar5006x) cards, madwifi livna rpms, adhoc mode, and
configuration scripts I described at the start of the thread -- no traffic
between peers
No matter what configuration I set in ifcfg-ath0, network manager was
changing something. It has to be related to authentication because the cards
would send packets but would never receive anything form anyone. I had
"iwpriv authmode 1" and "wpa 0" in my ifcfg-ath0. I had disabled
wpa_supplicant and still no successful pings anywhere..
Because network manager was doing something fishy, I stopped it using
ntsysv. I was able to connect cards in adhoc mode. They will not connect
automatically as NM is not running, but I added a workaround in rc.local
saying "service network restart".
I am still searching what NetworkManager was doing which blocked all
incoming traffic in adhoc mode in madwifi. If found, will file a bug for
sure. Its F9 too because same configuration worked fine on other distros.
-phm
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:13 PM, PH mooraa <phmooraa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Martin for your reply.
>
> I tried the recent madwifi-hal but still the same problem. I think the
> problem is somewhere else because in dmesg it can be seen that ath_pci finds
> correct chipset and loads properly. There are no error there.
>
> I added a vista laptop (intel wireless card) to the adhoc network and ran
> wireshark on it. When I ping the laptop from F9 machine, I can see that ARP
> arrives at laptop and laptop replies it with its MAC. But then that reply is
> never accepted by F9 machines. Its like, it drops those packets somehow and
> Rx packets in ifconfig ath0 remains 0 (there are many Tx packets though).
>
> Is there some preset security in F9 blocking this? It says an unsecured
> network in Vista laptop. What else it can be because same think on Ubuntu
> runs just fine..
>
> Any pointers??
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Martín Marqués <martin.marques at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have an AR242x. Livna madwifi didn't work at all.
>>
>> Solution: Download madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903, compile and
>> install.
>>
>> 2008/10/27 PH mooraa <phmooraa at gmail.com>:
>> > If someone can please help. same cards AR5413 (ar5006x) work with
>> > madwifi-0.9.4 on ubuntu but does not work on Fedora. I tried upgrading
>> > kernel too but still no luck.
>> >
>> > ath5k which comes built in in F9 works with this card. Initially some
>> howto
>> > mentioned to blacklist this module before loading madwifi's ath_pci.
>> Isn't
>> > ath5k still in starting phase? Has someone tried to use it with ar5413
>> > (ar5006x) cards?
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, PH mooraa <phmooraa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is
>> with
>> >> Fedora not madwifi
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with
>> >> following -
>> >>
>> >> #uname -a
>> >> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1
>> 06:28:41
>> >> EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>> >>
>> >> There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc
>> >> mode. (livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386,
>> kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
>> >> kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
>> >> madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386)
>> >>
>> >> In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are
>> not
>> >> able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0
>> does not
>> >> receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one
>> from
>> >> another. routes are set.
>> >>
>> >> #iwconfig
>> >> ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wmnad" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
>> >> Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A
>> >> Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
>> >> Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
>> >> Encryption key:off
>> >> Power Management:off
>> >> Link Quality=46/70 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm
>> >> Rx invalid nwid:7069 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>> >> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>> >>
>> >> #ifconfig
>> >> ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A
>> >> inet addr:11.11.11.1 Bcast:11.11.11.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>> >> inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link
>> >> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> >> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> >> TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>> >> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB)
>> >>
>> >> wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
>> >> 00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>> >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> >> RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464
>> >> TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
>> >> RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB) TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB)
>> >>
>> >> On both machines ath0 RX packets remains 0 and I don't know why is this
>> >> happening!!! Can someone please help..
>> >>
>> >> I think that there no problems with ath_pci loading as can be seen -
>> >>
>> >> #dmesg
>> >> ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
>> >> ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
>> RF5413)
>> >> ..
>> >> wlan: 0.9.4
>> >> ath_pci: 0.9.4
>> >> ..
>> >> ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
>> >> wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>> >> wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>> >> wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
>> >> 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>> >> wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
>> >> wifi0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
>> >> wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
>> >> wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
>> >> wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
>> >> wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
>> >> wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
>> >> wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
>> >> wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdef0000, irq=18
>> >> ..
>> >> ath0: no IPv6 routers present
>> >> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
>> >> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
>> >> ath0: no IPv6 routers present
>> >> ath0: no IPv6 routers present
>> >>
>> >> My configuration file for interface is like -
>> >>
>> >> #cat ifcfg-ath0
>> >> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
>> >> # for the documentation of these parameters.
>> >> TYPE=Wireless
>> >> DEVICE=ath0
>> >> HWADDR=00:02:6f:51:77:3a
>> >> BOOTPROTO=none
>> >> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>> >> DHCP_HOSTNAME=
>> >> IPADDR=11.11.11.1
>> >> DOMAIN=
>> >> ONBOOT=no
>> >> USERCTL=no
>> >> PEERDNS=yes
>> >> IPV6INIT=no
>> >> ESSID=cwmnad
>> >> CHANNEL=1
>> >> MODE=Ad-Hoc
>> >> RATE=auto
>> >> ENCRYPTION=off
>> >> SECURITYMODE=off
>> >> IWPRIV="authmode 1"
>> >>
>> >> In last 3 lines, I overdid security because initially I thought the
>> >> problem is due to authentication. I don't want any security at this
>> point.
>> >>
>> >> [ Other tests -
>> >> - the same card works in managed mode and connects to my building's
>> WLAN
>> >> AP. This makes me wonder more what I doing wrong.
>> >> - same cards with madwifi 0.9.4 works on Ubuntu in ad-hoc mode which
>> shows
>> >> that something in Fodora is going wrong. I really like F9 and really
>> don't
>> >> want to switch to ubuntu. ]
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Any help is really appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >> phm
>> >
>> >
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>> Martín Marqués
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>> DBA, Programador, Administrador
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