Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 13:09 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > > > And I've got this: > > > > $ lspci -nn |grep Ath > > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5211 > > 802.11ab NIC [168c:0012] (rev 01) > > Wow, that's some old piece of hardware! I used to have one, but I don't > have it anymore, so I cannot check its ath5k compatibility. > > > After I say "ifup ath0", iwconfig reveals that ath0 is associated to my > > AP and ifconfig looks right (as it should with a static config). dmesg > > looks great too: > ... > > ath0: Initial auth_alg=0 > > ath0: authenticate with AP 02:1e:58:07:5d:f2 > > ath0: RX authentication from 02:1e:58:07:5d:f2 (alg=0 transaction=2 > > status=0) > > ath0: authenticated > > That's open system authentication. It can happen with a wrong WEP key, > so you may want to check if the key is correct. > > > However, I can't ping my access point. > > Either the key is wrong, or the IP address, or ath5k has issues with WEP > on your hardware. > > > Do I need some extra magic in /etc/network/interfaces? Any other hints > > or advice appreciated! > > I suggest that you run ifconfig and iwconfig to check the actual > settings. Try scanning. Try connecting to an AP without WEP. Try > using dhcp if it's supported by the AP. Try MadWifi to see if it's the > driver issue or something else.
Pavel, I disabled WEP and now my network comes up either statically or with DHCP, so it appears that it must be a WEP issue. I had planned to "upgrade" to WPA, so perhaps now would be a good time to try WPA. Should ath5k work with WPA? I'm looking at [1], a Debian-specific WPA HOWTO. Does this configuration look about right? 1. http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-6fdd87d329e68a583e5fde32c6b21e460e5541a5 -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD _______________________________________________ ath5k-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-users
