#847: Madwifi on Ubuntu going terribly wrong
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: madwifi: driver | Version: trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: driver unloaded
Patch_attached: 0 |
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Old description:
> I've got a 3com 3CRPAG175 with an Atheros chipset on it that is shown to
> work with Madwifi. I've checked the documentation and tried it out with
> the default Ubuntu Dapper drivers and was htexperiencing a few scanning
> problems. I decided to upgrade to the newest drivers.
>
> I pulled the most recent copy with subversion (sudo svn checkout
> svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi-ng)
> make
> sudo make install
> depmod -a
> modprobe ath_pci
>
> It goes just fine but if I pull and ifconfig I have no wifi0 or ath0 dev
> devices. I check the dmesg and here is the output.
> [17180544.092000] ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111,
> RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> [17180544.092000] ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (svn r1705)
> [17180544.100000] ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r1705)
> [17180544.100000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 193
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps
> 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps
> 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: turboA rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps
> 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
> [17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
> [17180544.408000] wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x8a000000, irq=193
> [17180544.700000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
> [17180544.700000] ath_pci: driver unloaded
> [17180544.704000] ath_rate_sample: unloaded
> [17180544.704000] ath_hal: driver unloaded
>
> I've been fighing with this for about 3 hours now, do you have any idea
> of what I can do to fix this?
New description:
I've got a 3com 3CRPAG175 with an Atheros chipset on it that is shown to
work with Madwifi. I've checked the documentation and tried it out with
the default Ubuntu Dapper drivers and was htexperiencing a few scanning
problems. I decided to upgrade to the newest drivers.
I pulled the most recent copy with subversion (sudo svn checkout
svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi-ng)
{{{
make
sudo make install
depmod -a
modprobe ath_pci
}}}
It goes just fine but if I pull and ifconfig I have no wifi0 or ath0 dev
devices. I check the dmesg and here is the output.
{{{
[17180544.092000] ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111,
RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[17180544.092000] ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (svn r1705)
[17180544.100000] ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r1705)
[17180544.100000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 193
[17180544.404000] wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps
36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[17180544.404000] wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
[17180544.404000] wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps
12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[17180544.404000] wifi0: turboA rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps
36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[17180544.404000] wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
[17180544.404000] wifi0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
[17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
[17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
[17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
[17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
[17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
[17180544.404000] wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
[17180544.408000] wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x8a000000, irq=193
[17180544.700000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
[17180544.700000] ath_pci: driver unloaded
[17180544.704000] ath_rate_sample: unloaded
[17180544.704000] ath_hal: driver unloaded
}}}
I've been fighing with this for about 3 hours now, do you have any idea of
what I can do to fix this?
Comment (by mrenzmann):
I'm quite sure that this is a problem caused by Ubuntu (some of their
scripts or whatever), not by the driver. The dmesg dump above indicates
that the driver gets loaded and successfully initializes your card, but
then immediately get unloaded again (last 4 lines). The driver cannot
unload itself, so the culprit must be something that sits "behind the
scenes". And without the driver being loaded at the time you run
ifconfig/iwconfig, you of course don't see something like ''wifi0'' or
''ath0''.
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/847>
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