Hello list!
I'm having some problems setting a wireless network consisting of a
gentoo ap, one gentoo station and one Windows XP station.
I've followed the instructions on the madwifi.org and on gentoo
specialized forums and wiki. Seems like the "wireless" part of the
network is just fine and every station can connect to the ap, but I
can't do more than ping the hosts in the winxp station and the gentoo
station connects to the network but can't do nothing... not even ping
the ap.
Nothing wrong with logs and signal... but it seems that all the
network services and protocols (tcp, udp and icmp for the gentoo
station) aren't working.
The strange thing is that the Windows XP host can ping the ap, however
it can't get a dhcp address and even using static IP can't access
services on the AP like http and ssh. This machine can ping hosts on
the internet but can't access tcp or udp services. Iptraf on the AP
reports the connections.
The other Gentoo workstation can scan and connect to the network but
can't do nothing more.
From the AP Linux Machine:
/etc/conf.d/wireless:
modules_ath0=( "iwconfig" )
config_ath0=( "169.254.0.1/16" )
mode_ath0="Master"
essid_ath0="skyshaper"
channel_ath0="10"
iwpriv_ath0=( "mode 3" )
dns_domain_skyshaper="local"
dns_servers_skyshaper=( "169.254.0.1" )
dmesg relevant parts:
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.2.1)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.2.1)
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: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
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=0xdfdc0000, irq=11
lspci -vv relevant parts:
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc D-Link AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless
PCI Adapter(rev.B)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at dfdc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
iwconfig:
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"skyshaper" Nickname:""
Mode:Master Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 00:19:5B:66:D5:0C
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=55/94 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:354 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig:
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:5B:66:D5:0C
inet addr:169.254.0.1 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:6 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:13311 (12.9 Kb) TX bytes:9901 (9.6 Kb)
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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Expansion ROM at dfde0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
RX bytes:574 (574.0 b) TX bytes:574 (574.0 b)
nas0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:D0:B5:34:F2
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:134393 (131.2 Kb) TX bytes:2696 (2.6 Kb)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:201.13.90.211 P-t-P:200.100.11.75 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:2238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:115929 (113.2 Kb) TX bytes:1455 (1.4 Kb)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-19-5B-66-D5-0C-38-70-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1021 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:694
TX packets:569 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:68997 (67.3 Kb) TX bytes:62170 (60.7 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Memory:c8880000-c8890000
Kernel IP routing table:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
200.100.11.75 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 ath0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 200.100.11.75 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
/proc/net/wireless:
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
iface | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc |
beacon | 21
ath0: 0004 38. 199. 161. 381 0 0 0 0 0
From the Station Linux Machine:
/etc/conf.d/wireless:
mode_ath0="managed"
essid_ath0="skyshaper"
iwconfig_ath0=( "rate 54M" )
iwpriv_ath0=( "mode 3" )
config_ath0=( "169.254.0.3/16" )
routes_ath0=( "default via 169.254.0.1" )
dns_domain_skyshaper="local"
dns_servers_skyshaper="169.254.0.1"
dmesg relevant parts:
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.2.1)
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.2.1)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.2.1)
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: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
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=0xefbf0000, irq=20
lspci -vv relevant parts:
03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc D-Link AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless
PCI Adapter(rev.B)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at efbf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"skyshaper" Nickname:"yule"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 00:19:5B:66:D5:0C
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=59/94 Signal level=-36 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
ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:5B:66:D8:B0
inet addr:169.254.0.3 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:42 (42.0 b) TX bytes:45610 (44.5 Kb)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-19-5B-66-D8-B0-20-C1-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1164
TX packets:668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:2799129 (2.6 Mb) TX bytes:70104 (68.4 Kb)
Interrupt:20 Memory:f93e0000-f93f0000
Kernel IP routing table:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 ath0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
cat /proc/net/wireless
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 21
ath0: 0004 60. 221. 161. 0 0 0 0 0 0
Windows Machine:
No bad logs, no problems. It can ping the router ap, ping internet
address and even get dns responses from the ap. All other network
functions doesn't work.
Both stations reports good signal.
What about the "ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel."?
I thought the madwifi-ng modules were all open source. The madwifi-ng
package version is the latest until now (0.9.2.1).
I don't know what else I can do. From what I know, it should be
working but mystical forces are haunting my network.
I would appreciate any help.
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