#438: Determining IP information for ath0... failed. - Cannot set rate or
encode.
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: madwifi: other | Version:
Keywords: dhcp | Patch_attached: 0
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I have a Netgear PCI card WG311T. The following is an output from lspci:
Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
uname -r:2.6.15-1.1831_FC4
I installed the madwifi driver via yum and set up the ath0 device. However
when I try to obtain an IP through dhcp I get the following errors:
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument.
Determining IP information for ath0... failed.
I also tried to uninstall the madwifi driver that yum installed and then
downloaded and compiled the version directly from Madwifi.org. I still get
the same issue.
Here is the output for dmesg:
ath_hal: 0.9.16.16 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn 1457)
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (svn 1457)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn 1457)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
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=0xfde00000, irq=177
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/438>
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Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity
