Re: where is ath9k?
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Here's what I found on the Madwifi compatibility page: Ah, you didn't find a listing for AMBIT Microsystem Corp. That means, to me, that it is not compatible with madwifi. If it was, AMBIT would have be listed there. Google for AMBIT Microsystem Corp and see if they have any info on that card. Contact Acer and ask them for information on that card. Did you Acer come with WindBloz or Linux installed? WinBloz If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that card? It came with a CD but before anything else we ripped out WindBloz and installed Debian. At that time we were using a router and the ethernet card which came with the Laptop plays nicely with Debian. In fact the only problem we've every had with the Acer is right now with the Wifi. Everything else worked pretty much out of the box. I think I had to download a driver for the SIS video card from SIS but that was it. Does it have any software for that card installed? Did the card work in WindBloz? If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it working using the ndiswrapper package. Blush, blush. No I didn't think I would ever need it so I threw out the CD when we ripped out WindBloz. If it came with linux installed contact Acer for information on getting it working. -- Snip info about AR5005G which may or may not apply -- Acer calls this 802.11b/g Wireless LAN. I assume that is the wireless adapter. Is it something else. Sorry to be ignorant. I have never used wifi before as you can see. No problem. I have been there too. I spent 2 months researching Wifi cards and adapters before I even thought about buying one. My first priority was 'does it work with Linux'. I now have 8 pcmcia/usb Wifi working with Linux and one WindBloz pcmcia card on a Laptop my Son gave me. Guess which ones I use. :-) Sorry I wasn't able to help you get it running. Au contraire, thanks a lot for helping me. Right now the pcmia or usb wifi card seems the best option. Any recommendations on that score? Good luck! Wayne Once again, thanks a million Wayne. You show us all what Debian is all about. Cheers mate, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: -- SNIP -- me. Guess which ones I use. :-) Sorry I wasn't able to help you get it running. Au contraire, thanks a lot for helping me. Right now the pcmia or usb wifi card seems the best option. Any recommendations on that score? I like the pcmcia cards but I also use 3 different usb adapters. I prefer the pcmcia cards because they all work with madwifi. I only bought cards that were madwifi compatable. I would suggest you search for a pcmcia card that has the features/price you like. Then go to the madwifi Compatibility page and make sure the Manuf. and that model/version is supported. If not, keep looking. I like the Netgear WG511U 3.3v/Cardbus pcmcia cards because that work great. Never had a problem with them and by following all the Tips given in the UserDocs on the madwifi site I had no problems using then in any mode. I have them working on an IBM T40 two 770 (2) laptops, a HP ze4420us laptop, and an old 586 desktop with a pcmcia adapter. Best regards and good luck in your search! Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without being near a wifi hotpoitn) if the installed driver is the correct one? Thanks again for all the help. Jonathan Have you checked if your adapter works with madwifi? Check out the Compatibility page on the madwifi site http://madwifi.org. I have used, and am using, Netgear and D-Links cards. Be sure to watch for the version of your card. Many manufactures use different chips in the their cards without changing the Card part #, they just change the version. That's from someone who got bit by getting the wrong version number. Wayne Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci which was what I tried. This is part of the 2.6.25 kernel so I'll modprobe that one and report back on the ifconfig output to see if it's more like yours. ... aaarrrggg! This is not going to be easy, is it? When I try #modprobe -v acer-wmi I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device Back to square 1? Cheers, Jonathan Trymodprobe acer_wmi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i acer /boot/config* /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m Wayne Thank you Wayne, I'll change that to /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: --SNIP-- Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci which was what I tried. This is part of the 2.6.25 kernel so I'll modprobe that one and report back on the ifconfig output to see if it's more like yours. ... aaarrrggg! This is not going to be easy, is it? When I try #modprobe -v acer-wmi I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device Back to square 1? Cheers, Jonathan Trymodprobe acer_wmi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i acer /boot/coacer_wmi /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m Wayne Thank you Wayne, I'll change that to /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m Change what?? The last line was a hint as to find out if the module was in the kernel or not. Just use modprobe acer_wmi, better yet do cat acer_wmi /etc/modules which will add that module to the end of the /etc/modules file. Remember to use the 'not' or you will wipe out the other modules in that file. Have fun Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: --SNIP-- Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci which was what I tried. This is part of the 2.6.25 kernel so I'll modprobe that one and report back on the ifconfig output to see if it's more like yours. ... aaarrrggg! This is not going to be easy, is it? When I try #modprobe -v acer-wmi I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device Back to square 1? Cheers, Jonathan Trymodprobe acer_wmi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i acer /boot/coacer_wmi /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m Wayne Thank you Wayne, I'll change that to /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m Change what?? The last line was a hint as to find out if the module was in the kernel or not. Just use modprobe acer_wmi, better yet do cat acer_wmi /etc/modules which will add that module to the end of the /etc/modules file. Remember to use the 'not' or you will wipe out the other modules in that file. Have fun Wayne Hi Wayne, What confused me was that I already did the modprobe acer_wmi (except that I used the verbose -v switch) and I reported the result before my arrggghh. I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device. I tried that again and the same fatal error. I can do as you suggest and manually insert the acer_wmi into the /etc/modules file. BTW, in dmesg, the acer_wmi module is mentioned with the message that it cannot be loaded because there is no interface. ?? This is not my machine so I can't verify anything at the moment but if you'd like more info I'll post it in a few minutes. Thanks again but not having fun yet, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: where is ath9k?
I've been using ath9k in a 2.6.27-rc3 testing kernel and it works great! The sureest bet would be to download and compile that kernel which I've documented here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_install_the_development_version_of_atk9k. Alternatively, there is a thread in Ubuntu forums where a script has been posted to compile ath9k for older kernels and build it as a .deb package. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=874097 Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: --SNIP-- Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be Did the Compatibility page say that madwifi supported your card/adapter or not? acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci which was what I tried. This is part of the 2.6.25 kernel so I'll modprobe that one and report back on the ifconfig output to see if it's more like yours. ... aaarrrggg! This is not going to be easy, is it? When I try #modprobe -v acer-wmi I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such note acer- device Back to square 1? Cheers, Jonathan Trymodprobe acer_wmi ^^^ acer_ Not the same as above! Thank you Wayne, I'll change that to /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m Change what?? The last line was a hint as to find out if the module was in the kernel or not. Just use modprobe acer_wmi, better yet do cat acer_wmi /etc/modules which will add that module to the end of the /etc/modules file. Remember to use the 'not' or you will wipe out the other modules in that file. Have fun Wayne Hi Wayne, What confused me was that I already did the modprobe acer_wmi (except that I used the verbose -v switch) and I reported the result before my arrggghh. I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device. Thats why we need to see the wireless output of lspci -vvv I tried that again and the same fatal error. I can do as you suggest and manually insert the acer_wmi into the /etc/modules file. Do that when/if you get it to see the card BTW, in dmesg, the acer_wmi module is mentioned with the message that it cannot be loaded because there is no interface. ?? This is not my machine so I can't verify anything at the moment but if you'd like more info I'll post it in a few minutes. Thanks again but not having fun yet, Jonathan I asked you for the output of lspci -vvv a few messages back but never got a response, so if you could show us that output (only the wireless interface part) it would help. I thought I had also asked what wireless adapter you are trying to get working. I still don't know so without that information I am not able to do much more. WT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3 Region 0: Memory at e201 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: access denied Kernel modules: ath5k Hmm. That's a little worrying. disabled? access denied? Here's what I found on the Madwifi compatibility page: Atheros AR5005G ΒΆ Chipset:AR5005G = (AR2413) Chip: AR2413 (802.11b+g) URL:http://www.atheros.com/pt/AR5005G.htm Supports: IEEE 802.11b, 802.11g Working:not working with version 0.9.2, dmesg reports: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13) Notes: Several tickets indicate this; no response was ever given. However, some users have reported success, but could not confirm this. Notes: Works perfectly on Slackware 11 (kernel 2.6.18.3) and madwifi 0.9.2. Just modprobe ath_pci after compiling/installing. (this on an Acer 3102 wlmi) Notes: For Kernel 2.6.22.1 use trunk version (madwifi 0.9.3.1 release doesn't compile): svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk madwifi . That works perfectly (I'm running Slackware 12 on Acer 3102wlmi). Notes: SMC PCI card: OK for Slackware 12.1 (kernel 2.6.25.2), with madwifi-0.9.4 Notes: I can confirm that this chipset works great with the madwifi-ng drivers on Debian Testing. Also monitor mode. Notes: chipset is AR1423, as you can see through URL Notes: This chipset works on the Acer Aspire 5040 if you install the acer_acpi driver http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html Notes: Works on the Acer Aspire 3053 if you reload the modules (see http://rik.rikva.nl/?q=node/10) and then run depmod -a (as root) Notes: Works on the Acer Aspire 5051 using madwifi source pulled 2006-12-18 (OpenSuSE 10.2/x86_64) Notes: Works on the Acer Aspire 5100 using madwifi source (Mandriva 2007.0/x86_64) Notes: Cheap Ativa card works ok in gentoo. /etc/init.d/net.athx start does not ifconfig athx up the device, so preferred wireless won't work Notes: Works out of the box with Ubuntu 7.10 and 6.06 This all seems quite confusing, as many answers as there are different notes. Acer calls this 802.11b/g Wireless LAN. I assume that is the wireless adapter. Is it something else. Sorry to be ignorant. I have never used wifi before as you can see. I hope this is all the information you requested. Sorry to be so thick about all this. Thanks for your patience, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Here's what I found on the Madwifi compatibility page: Ah, you didn't find a listing for AMBIT Microsystem Corp. That means, to me, that it is not compatible with madwifi. If it was, AMBIT would have be listed there. Google for AMBIT Microsystem Corp and see if they have any info on that card. Contact Acer and ask them for information on that card. Did you Acer come with WindBloz or Linux installed? If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that card? Does it have any software for that card installed? Did the card work in WindBloz? If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it working using the ndiswrapper package. If it came with linux installed contact Acer for information on getting it working. -- Snip info about AR5005G which may or may not apply -- Acer calls this 802.11b/g Wireless LAN. I assume that is the wireless adapter. Is it something else. Sorry to be ignorant. I have never used wifi before as you can see. No problem. I have been there too. I spent 2 months researching Wifi cards and adapters before I even thought about buying one. My first priority was 'does it work with Linux'. I now have 8 pcmcia/usb Wifi working with Linux and one WindBloz pcmcia card on a Laptop my Son gave me. Guess which ones I use. :-) Sorry I wasn't able to help you get it running. Good luck! Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without being near a wifi hotpoitn) if the installed driver is the correct one? Thanks again for all the help. Jonathan Have you checked if your adapter works with madwifi? Check out the Compatibility page on the madwifi site http://madwifi.org. I have used, and am using, Netgear and D-Links cards. Be sure to watch for the version of your card. Many manufactures use different chips in the their cards without changing the Card part #, they just change the version. That's from someone who got bit by getting the wrong version number. Wayne Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci which was what I tried. This is part of the 2.6.25 kernel so I'll modprobe that one and report back on the ifconfig output to see if it's more like yours. ... aaarrrggg! This is not going to be easy, is it? When I try #modprobe -v acer-wmi I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device Back to square 1? Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without being near a wifi hotpoitn) if the installed driver is the correct one? Thanks again for all the help. Jonathan Have you checked if your adapter works with madwifi? Check out the Compatibility page on the madwifi site http://madwifi.org. I have used, and am using, Netgear and D-Links cards. Be sure to watch for the version of your card. Many manufactures use different chips in the their cards without changing the Card part #, they just change the version. That's from someone who got bit by getting the wrong version number. Wayne Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci which was what I tried. This is part of the 2.6.25 kernel so I'll modprobe that one and report back on the ifconfig output to see if it's more like yours. ... aaarrrggg! This is not going to be easy, is it? When I try #modprobe -v acer-wmi I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such device Back to square 1? Cheers, Jonathan Trymodprobe acer_wmi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i acer /boot/config* /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where is ath9k?
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over the drivers and released the code. It seems I need an ath9k driver and that I get it from atheros. This led me to the Linux Wireless website. I found a link to the ath9k driver here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Getthecode The link on the above page is: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download and of course that link is broken. Aaarggghhh. I then followed this link http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download and found the compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 tarball. I got the latest version which (I think) was 6 August 2008. I followed the instructions and built the drivers but no ath9k! aaarrggg. I loaded the drivers per the instructions and there is mac80211 and ath5k but no ath9k. At this link http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k I found the following instructions: Enabling ath9k To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211: I'm not sure what enable means in this context but I modprobed mac80211 and it shows up in the lsmod list. Next came the very cryptic instructions: Networking --- Wireless --- M Improved wireless configuration API M Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211) This seems to involve some sort of software but I haven't a clue what it wants me to do. I am in a hopeless muddle now. Can anyone give me some hints here. Thanks, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian
Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and
found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over the
drivers and released the code. It seems I need an ath9k driver and that I
get it from atheros. This led me to the Linux Wireless website. I found a
link to the ath9k driver here:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Getthecode
The link on the above page is:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
and of course that link is broken. Aaarggghhh.
I then followed this link
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
and found the compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 tarball. I got the latest version
which (I think) was 6 August 2008. I followed the instructions and built
the drivers but no ath9k! aaarrggg.
I loaded the drivers per the instructions and there is mac80211 and ath5k
but no ath9k.
At this link
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
I found the following instructions:
Enabling ath9k
To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211:
I'm not sure what enable means in this context but I modprobed mac80211
and it shows up in the lsmod list. Next came the very cryptic instructions:
Networking ---
Wireless ---
M Improved wireless configuration API
M Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
This seems to involve some sort of software but I haven't a clue what it
wants me to do. I am in a hopeless muddle now.
Can anyone give me some hints here.
ath9K?
I think you may have been misled. In the kernel config for kernel
2.6.25-{2-3), there is a module called ath5k for the latest version of
of madwifi.
From what I've read it does bring the interface us but people have not
been able to associate with an AP yet.
I have not tried it yet myself due to other more pressing problems.
Wayne
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Re: where is ath9k?
On Monday 18 August 2008, Wayne Topa wrote:
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian
Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and
found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over the
drivers and released the code. It seems I need an ath9k driver and that I
get it from atheros. This led me to the Linux Wireless website. I found a
link to the ath9k driver here:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Getthecode
The link on the above page is:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
and of course that link is broken. Aaarggghhh.
I then followed this link
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
and found the compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 tarball. I got the latest
version which (I think) was 6 August 2008. I followed the instructions
and built the drivers but no ath9k! aaarrggg.
I loaded the drivers per the instructions and there is mac80211 and ath5k
but no ath9k.
At this link
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
I found the following instructions:
Enabling ath9k
To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211:
I'm not sure what enable means in this context but I modprobed mac80211
and it shows up in the lsmod list. Next came the very cryptic
instructions: Networking ---
Wireless ---
M Improved wireless configuration API
M Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
This seems to involve some sort of software but I haven't a clue what it
wants me to do. I am in a hopeless muddle now.
Can anyone give me some hints here.
ath9K?
I think you may have been misled. In the kernel config for kernel
2.6.25-{2-3), there is a module called ath5k for the latest version of
of madwifi.
From what I've read it does bring the interface us but people have not
been able to associate with an AP yet.
I have not tried it yet myself due to other more pressing problems.
Wayne
ath9k is for the 802.11n chips, ath5k for the a/b/g chips. ath9k is newer
than ath5k. Both are now lead by people from Atheros (they employed
the people who were leading the ath5k team) and both are incomplete and
are under heavy development. I would suggest that you wait a couple of
kernel iterations before trying either of them for production use, and if you
can (i.e. you do not have an 11n chip) use madwifi for now.
Obviously in the long term as both ath?k drivers are entirely open source
rather than relying on a closed HAL they are preferable to madwifi.
David
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Re: where is ath9k?
David Goodenough wrote:
On Monday 18 August 2008, Wayne Topa wrote:
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Hi all,
-- SNIP --
At this link
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
I found the following instructions:
Enabling ath9k
To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211:
I'm not sure what enable means in this context but I modprobed mac80211
and it shows up in the lsmod list. Next came the very cryptic
instructions: Networking ---
Wireless ---
M Improved wireless configuration API
M Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
This seems to involve some sort of software but I haven't a clue what it
wants me to do. I am in a hopeless muddle now.
Can anyone give me some hints here.
ath9K?
I think you may have been misled. In the kernel config for kernel
2.6.25-{2-3), there is a module called ath5k for the latest version of
of madwifi.
From what I've read it does bring the interface us but people have not
been able to associate with an AP yet.
I have not tried it yet myself due to other more pressing problems.
Wayne
ath9k is for the 802.11n chips, ath5k for the a/b/g chips. ath9k is newer
than ath5k. Both are now lead by people from Atheros (they employed
the people who were leading the ath5k team) and both are incomplete and
are under heavy development. I would suggest that you wait a couple of
kernel iterations before trying either of them for production use, and if you
can (i.e. you do not have an 11n chip) use madwifi for now.
Obviously in the long term as both ath?k drivers are entirely open source
rather than relying on a closed HAL they are preferable to madwifi.
Thanks for that information David. I have not been able to keep up with
the progress
on the madwifi site but am glad that they are 'really' looking ahead.
My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information.
Wayne
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Re: where is ath9k?
Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without being near a wifi hotpoitn) if the installed driver is the correct one? Thanks again for all the help. Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Monday 18 August 2008, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without being near a wifi hotpoitn) if the installed driver is the correct one? Thanks again for all the help. Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr or ifconfig. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is ath9k?
David Goodenough wrote: snip Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr or ifconfig. David Thanks for that David. I checked the syslog and there are a bunch of messages relating to ath_pci and ath_hal. They don't seem very revealing; nothing like bad driver or broken or missing. I'm not really sure what I should be looking for. The output of ifconfig is easier. Here it is (I've omitted the eth0 and lo stuff) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:9b:cf:bc:0c inet addr:172.26.0.4 Bcast:172.26.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0E-9B-CF-BC-0C-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Does this look like it's happy with the driver? Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Monday 18 August 2008, Jonathan Kaye wrote: David Goodenough wrote: snip Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr or ifconfig. David Thanks for that David. I checked the syslog and there are a bunch of messages relating to ath_pci and ath_hal. They don't seem very revealing; nothing like bad driver or broken or missing. I'm not really sure what I should be looking for. The output of ifconfig is easier. Here it is (I've omitted the eth0 and lo stuff) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:9b:cf:bc:0c inet addr:172.26.0.4 Bcast:172.26.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0E-9B-CF-BC-0C-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Does this look like it's happy with the driver? Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Its a good start. Now you need to try connecting to the great outside. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David Goodenough wrote: snip Does this look like it's happy with the driver? Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Its a good start. Now you need to try connecting to the great outside. David OK, thanks David. We'll look for an AP and give it a try. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without being near a wifi hotpoitn) if the installed driver is the correct one? Thanks again for all the help. Jonathan Have you checked if your adapter works with madwifi? Check out the Compatibility page on the madwifi site http://madwifi.org. I have used, and am using, Netgear and D-Links cards. Be sure to watch for the version of your card. Many manufactures use different chips in the their cards without changing the Card part #, they just change the version. That's from someone who got bit by getting the wrong version number. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jonathan Kaye wrote: David Goodenough wrote: snip Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr or ifconfig. David Thanks for that David. I checked the syslog and there are a bunch of messages relating to ath_pci and ath_hal. They don't seem very revealing; nothing like bad driver or broken or missing. I'm not really sure what I should be looking for. The output of ifconfig is easier. Here it is (I've omitted the eth0 and lo stuff) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:9b:cf:bc:0c inet addr:172.26.0.4 Bcast:172.26.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0E-9B-CF-BC-0C-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Does this look like it's happy with the driver? Cheers, Jonathan Not to me it doesn't. My madwifi systems do not have a wmaster0 interface. They do have an ath0 and wifi0. I don't have any wifi card that shows a wmaster0 and I use 4 different card/drivers. What adapter are you using? what does lspci -vvv show for your adapter? Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
