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Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard-2 wrote: > > Hi all, > > My new laptop (asus F80L-4P007C) comes with an Atheros AR5418 wifi > chipset, > which apparently doesn't work well with madwifi from current Lenny. This > chipset is reported to work with madwifi at: > > http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5418 > > I have packet loss varying form 0% to 85%, even pinging my local gateway > (which is also the wifi AP). The only other abnormal things I noticed are > the message > > wifi0: unknow hardware address type 801 > > issued (two times) when I ran 'dhclient ath0' (after configuring the card > with iwconfig and bringing it up with ifconfig). > > Now, after some time using it, I have: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% /sbin/iwconfig ath0 > ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"freeboite" Nickname:"" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: > 96:8C:04:33:F8:1C > Bit Rate:48 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 > Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Power Management:off > Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-31 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:47937 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > I notice that 'Rx invalid nwid' is non-zero, but don't know how to use > this > information. > > What can I do in order to debug or work around this problem? > > For now the options I can see are: > 1. Use a more recent madwifi snapshot. > 2. Try a 2.6.27 kernel with the new ath9k driver which is supposed to > handle > my chipset. > 3. Use the win32 driver via ndiswrapper. I don't like this option at all, > it > also forces me to re-install everything in 32bits... > > Any sensible advice greatly welcome! I include some info which my be > useful, > feel free to ask more if I forgot something important. > > TIA, > Manuel. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% lspci | grep -i wireless > 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418 802.11abgn > Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% lspci -v -s 02:00.0 > 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418 802.11abgn > Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 3072 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 > Memory at fdef0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: ath_pci > Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k > roth:~# lsmod G 'ath|wlan' > wlan_wep 9984 1 > wlan_scan_sta 17280 1 > ath_rate_sample 17024 1 > ath_pci 241600 0 > wlan 223904 5 > wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci > ath_hal 334480 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% uname -a > Linux roth 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 12:09:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problems-with-madwifi-and-Atheros-AR5418-tp19277095p19716334.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]