Re: madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards

Monday, 27 October 2008

If someone can please help. same cards AR5413 (ar5006x) work with
madwifi-0.9.4 on ubuntu but does not work on Fedora. I tried upgrading
kernel too but still no luck.

ath5k which comes built in in F9 works with this card. Initially some howto
mentioned to blacklist this module before loading madwifi's ath_pci. Isn't
ath5k still in starting phase? Has someone tried to use it with ar5413
(ar5006x) cards?

thanks,

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, PH mooraa <phmooraa(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
 Hi All,

 --
 reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is with
 Fedora not madwifi
 --

 I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with
 following -

 #uname -a
 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41
 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

 There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc
 mode. (livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386, kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
 kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
 madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386)

 In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are not
 able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0 does not
 receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one from
 another. routes are set.

 #iwconfig
 ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"wmnad" 
Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A
           Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality=46/70  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-87 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:7069  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

 #ifconfig
 ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A
           inet addr:11.11.11.1  Bcast:11.11.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB)

 wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
 00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464
           TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
           RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB)

 On both machines ath0 RX packets remains 0 and I don't know why is this
 happening!!! Can someone please help..

 I think that there no problems with ath_pci loading as can be seen -

 #dmesg
 ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
 ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
 ..
 wlan: 0.9.4
 ath_pci: 0.9.4
 ..
 ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
 wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
 wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
 wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
 wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
 wifi0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
 wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
 wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdef0000, irq=18
 ..
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present
 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present

 My configuration file for interface is like -

 #cat ifcfg-ath0
 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
 # for the documentation of these parameters.
 TYPE=Wireless
 DEVICE=ath0
 HWADDR=00:02:6f:51:77:3a
 BOOTPROTO=none
 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
 DHCP_HOSTNAME=
 IPADDR=11.11.11.1
 DOMAIN=
 ONBOOT=no
 USERCTL=no
 PEERDNS=yes
 IPV6INIT=no
 ESSID=cwmnad
 CHANNEL=1
 MODE=Ad-Hoc
 RATE=auto
 ENCRYPTION=off
 SECURITYMODE=off
 IWPRIV="authmode 1"

 In last 3 lines, I overdid security because initially I thought the problem
 is due to authentication. I don't want any security at this point.

 [ Other tests -
 - the same card works in managed mode and connects to my building's WLAN
 AP. This makes me wonder more what I doing wrong.
 - same cards with madwifi 0.9.4 works on Ubuntu in ad-hoc mode which shows
 that something in Fodora is going wrong. I really like F9 and really don't
 want to switch to ubuntu. ]

 Any help is really appreciated.

 Thanks in advance,
 phm