Hi,

posted that to ath5k-users, having no hit on the logs makes me think the
users list isn't really that active :-)

dmesg says it is an AR5213

phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
ath5k_pci 0000:02:02.0: Atheros AR5213 chip found: MAC 0x56, PHY: 0x41
ath5k_pci 0000:02:02.0: RF5111 5GHz radio found (0x17)
ath5k_pci 0000:02:02.0: RF2111 2GHz radio found (0x23)

however PCI ID is 168c:0013 (rev 01) which is an AR5212 accordig to the
page on linuxwireless.org.

Regards,
Bernhard

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Hi everyone,

first of all, are user-side experiences already appreciated or is it too
early in the development stage to be usable?

I have for ages now had more or less annoying issues with my Thinkpad
and an Atheros AR5213 chip running Ubuntu Linux and Madwifi(-ng). Both
at home (AP is a Linksys WRT54G running all releases of OpenWRT between
WhiteRussion 1.0RC4 and Kamikaze 7.09 with WPA-PSK) and university
(mostly running Colubris CN320/CN330 with WPA/EAP-TTLS) I had frequent
to annoyingly disturbing disconnects where it took a long time to
reconnect (up to 60seconds), sometimes it wasn't even possible to
reconnect. Although I'm anything but a kernel hacker (more an
experienced end-user) I decided to give ath5k a try.

I loaded the ath5k branch of the wireless-2.6 git tree - latest commit in
my local tree is

commit 286c21f7d6b7a0315d717bdaf5efc320bbd19df6
Author: Luis R. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Thu Nov 1 23:11:31 2007 -0400

and compiled that beast. The base system is Kubuntu Gutsy (7.10) with
wpa_supplicant version 0.6.0+0.5.8-0ubuntu1.

So far I've only tried to connect to my home network and first failed
(network was running WPA(1)-PSK). wpa_supplicant log shows it repeating
the group handshake phase forever and then disconnecting. The full log
is here

http://users.birkenwald.de/~berni/temp/ath5k_wpa.log

I then changed the OpenWRT to psk2 (WPA2-PSK) and finally got a connect.

http://users.birkenwald.de/~berni/temp/ath5k_wpa2.log

at a first glance both unicast and multicast/broadcast AP->client work,
the other direction however doesn't. I can't see any packets from the
wireless station on the LAN, neither broadcast/multicast (DHCP and IPv6
router solicitation/neighbor discovery) nor unicast after manually
setting neighbor cache entries.

Any advise how I could debug further? Or is this a known issue?

Thanks however already, I obviously can't tell anything about working
experience so far but the WPA handshake feels so much better than it
used to be with Madwifi.

Regards,
Bernhard

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