(in case anyone cares) I'm on the way home from a trip where I used ath5k under Fedora 8 (two different kernels) on a laptop with a D-Link PCMCIA card that lists as 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
I gave up having the interface try to come up at boot time, since that never works. I would never expect it to in a situation where several APs are present - I don't know how it chooses which one to try. Situation 1 - in a private home with linksys router and no encryption. ifconfig, iwconfig, and dhclient are all it takes, tho for some reason I had to repeat that several times tonight before dhclient would work. Situation 2 - motel that has several access points hearable, no encryption, and a password system. Just had to ifconfig, iwconfig, and dhclient and it worked. Then gave the password when asked to by the web browser and all wa well. Situation 3 - motel with several access points and encryption. The desk clerk gave me the encryption key, but called it the "password" After a while I realized it was a ten digit hex number. To get things to work I had to give that to iwconfig as the key argument in the form xxxx-xxxx-xx if I left out the hyphens it didn't work. Situation 4 - motel with several access points and no encryption but a password as in situation 2. Had trouble getting this to work, and eventually realized the have the same essid for two different access points. Maybe that confused things. Anyway I eventually figured out to use the ap argument to iwconfig for the specific one I wanted to use, and then it worked as in situation 2. Maybe this will save others some head scratching. The kernels involved are 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 and 2.6.24.7-92.fc8 _______________________________________________ ath5k-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-users
