Change the Wireless Interface to ath0, then it should work. The driver is Wext.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:18 AM, pigi.monaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed Wicd. It works nicely as far as wired connection is > concerned, but it does not see any wireless connection. In the Preferences > window, after the WPA Supplicant Driver (I've selected wext, but also tried > madwifi and ndiswrapper) the Wired interface is eth0, the Wireless interface > is None. > Also, I'm confused because I can't see eth0 with ifconfig any more... > > > If this doesn't work, try switching to WPA supplicant first, then > installing wicd. > > What does it mean exactly? > > Pierluigi > > -- > madwifi not working on macbook core duo with hardy > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221837 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > After installing ubuntu 8.04 on my new macbook core duo, I installed > madwifi following the instructions here: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook > > I obtained: > > wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-trunk-current.tar.gz > ... > > tar -zxvf madwifi-trunk-current.tar.gz > ... > > cd madwifi-trunk-r3573-20080425/ > > make > ... > > make install-modules > ... > > echo -e '#!/bin/sh\n/sbin/iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0' | sudo tee -a > /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-madwifi-bgscan.sh > ... > > chmod 755 /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-madwifi-bgscan.sh > > modprobe ath_pci > > lsmod | grep ath > ath_pci 239928 0 > wlan 236272 1 ath_pci > ath_hal 253920 1 ath_pci > > > iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0 > ath0 no private ioctls. > > > ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:5b:f5:2e:f8 > inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::21f:5bff:fef5:2ef8/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:3969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:2833 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:5558180 (5.3 MB) TX bytes:248961 (243.1 KB) > Interrupt:17 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:3020 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:3020 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:151000 (147.4 KB) TX bytes:151000 (147.4 KB) > > > ...so the ath0 and wifi0 devices are not there. These are the last four > lines of dmesg output: > > [ 233.654814] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. > [ 233.657570] ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, > RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133) > [ 233.679532] wlan: svn r3573 > [ 233.690538] ath_pci: svn r3573 > > Any help most welcome, a laptop without wireless is not much use! > Pierluigi Monaco > > PS: > > lsb_release -rd > Description: Ubuntu 8.04 > Release: 8.04 > -- madwifi not working on macbook core duo with hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221837 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
