Mike Leone on 3 Aug 2006 21:45:49 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Kubuntu and a Belkin 54g wireless card with an Atheros chipset


On Thursday 03 August 2006 16:26, sean finney wrote:
> hey mike,
>
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:09:37PM -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
> > I installed those modules last night, and then even re-booted. No luck;
> > no IP; no lights came on, on the card.
>
> okay, but does the kernel recognize the card?  relevant lines from
> dmesg and the output of ifconfig -a would be helpful here.

iwconfig:
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"mike-leone-54g"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.

- so it must be doing *some* part right, since it found my SSID ,,,

turgon@mjl-2650-laptop:~$ ifconfig -a
ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:50:70:EC:FD
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:50ff:fe70:ecfd/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:120 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:120
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:200
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:10 Memory:d0b40000-d0b50000

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:74:E9:88:26
          inet addr:10.0.0.4  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::208:74ff:fee9:8826/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3486970 (3.3 MiB)  TX bytes:96092 (93.8 KiB)
          Interrupt:10

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:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:172 (172.0 b)  TX bytes:172 (172.0 b)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Selected /etc/network/interfaces:

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

#Wifi Adapter
pre-up iwconfig ath0 essid "mike-leone-54g"
pre-up iwconfig ath0 mode managed
pre-up iwpriv ath0 set Channel=9
pre-up iwpriv ath0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
pre-up iwpriv ath0 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwpriv ath0 set WPAPSK="********"
pre-up iwpriv ath0 set TxRate=54

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Selected dmesg:

[4294709.620000] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
[4294709.658000] ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, 
RF2413)
[4294709.674000] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
[4294709.676000] cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
[4294709.677000] cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
[4294709.678000] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[4294709.678000] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[4294709.711000] wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[4294709.714000] ath_rate_sample: 1.2
[4294709.727000] ath_pci: 0.9.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[4294709.728000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[4294709.728000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 
(level, low) -> IRQ 10
[4294710.302000] Build date: May 29 2006
[4294710.302000] Debugging version (IEEE80211)
[4294710.302000] ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
[4294710.302000] ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 
12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[4294710.302000] ath0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
[4294710.302000] ath0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
[4294710.302000] ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
[4294710.302000] ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
[4294710.302000] ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
[4294710.302000] ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
[4294710.302000] ath0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
[4294710.302000] ath0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
[4294710.302000] Debugging version (ATH)
[4294710.302000] ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x24000000, irq=10
[4294710.372000] NET: Registered protocol family 17

Thanks for all the help
>
>
> 	sean
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