Hi,
in the quest for a working wireless card, given the bad experience with
my MIMO card which is not supported ony free OS, I bought another one
off e-bay. Wireless is hard...
I'm running a current kernel compiled after 5.3 which has the Miod's
patch to have my wired network card work.
The dmesg for this card is:
ath0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 11
ath0: AR5213 5.6 phy 4.1 rf5112a 3.6, FCC2A*, address 00:0d:02:ab:d2:23
ath0 detached
I then tried the card I had on another laptop (known wokring on FreeBSD)
ath0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR2413" rev 0x01: irq 11
ath0: AR2413 7.8 phy 4.5 rf 5.6, FCC2A*, address 00:23:cd:c9:c4:d9
ath0 detached
I need to connect to a simple WEP network. With both card I experience
this behaviour:
I set the key with "nwkey" and the ssid with "nwid".
When I run dhclient on the card, the led will power up, blink
itnermittently, but no link comes up.
Interesting is that running "ifconfig ath0 scan" shows many neighbouring
networks, but no the one I wnat to register to. I also suppose that the
fact that the card is scanning means it is at least partially working.
pehaps the problem is in WEP?
I don't have free or WPA networks to access and test though.
If I complete the same procedure as above with the only working card I
know which is a ral card, it will register fine (exactly the same
commands, so I know stting the key and ssid is correct) and "scan" will
show my network.
Riccardo
PS: On FreeBSD, the first card behaves the same, but the second card
works, just as a comparison.
