Hi, Thanks for help. I downloaded wireless-2.6 git kernel, configured mac80211 and atheros 5xxx support and compiled. After booting into that kernel, I found that ath5k driver was installed successfully. But, if I try to scan, driver is not giving scan results. After doing "iwlist ath0 scan", I am getting "No scan results" on command prompt. I found that the data buffer (wrq.data.length) length in iwlist.c source file after returning from SIOCGIWSCAN ioctl is 0. This means driver is not sending scan results.
Please help me solve this problem. Is scan working in ath5k? thanks, Jagadish Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:56 +0530, Jagadish wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am new to ath5k mailing list. I downloaded wireless-2.6 git >> repository. I compiled the wireless-2.6 kernel(which is 2.6.24-rc3). But >> I am unable to boot with this kernel. I am getting the following error >> while booting. >> >> "Waiting for device /dev/sda1 to appear: not found exiting." >> After this I am getting a shell prompt which has minimal commands and >> temporary file system. >> > > This problem has nothing to do with ath5k. Your kernel is not > configured correctly for your hardware. Most likely, you didn't enable > the driver for your disk controller. Or maybe you enabled CONFIG_IDE > instead of CONFIG_ATA, so that your hard drive appears as /dev/hda, but > the startup scripts expect /dev/sda. Or maybe you compiled the driver > as a module, but it wasn't copied to the initial ramdrive. > > >> All this effort is to test ath5k driver. Am I going in correct >> procedure? If not please suggest me how to install ath5k driver and test >> it. My current kernel version is 2.6.16. >> > > That's a very old kernel that won't be supported by the compat-wireless > package, so perhaps you should upgrade anyway. Check if your distro > offers kernel updates. Distribution kernels are made to work on a wide > variety of hardware. > > Or fix the kernel you are compiling. But you need to ask questions in > the right places and with sufficient context. > > _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
