On 1 Dec 2007, at 06:32, Grant wrote:
I'm trying to set up a new laptop's wireless interface. lspci says it
has an Atheros AR5006EG which should mean the madwifi drivers. I
emerged madwifi-ng and madwifi-ng-tools, created net.ath0 as a link to
net.lo, and set the ath_pci module to autoload (which it does without
errors) but I get:
network interface ath0 does not exist
Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver)
when trying to start net.ath0. Does this sound like a driver support
problem or did I miss something? ifconfig only shows eth0 and lo.
iwconfig shows, eth0, lo, and sit0. I don't know what sit0 is.
Hi there,
Madwifi is different from all (I think) of the other Linux wireless
drivers in that it requires use of the wlanconfig command.
EG:
wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
See also: http://madwifi.org/users-guide/node14.html
When posting about wireless issues you really need to post the OUTPUT
of `iwconfig` also.
EG:
iwconfig wlan0 enc aaaaaaaaaa mode managed essid driveon channel 7
<http://www.newlinuxuser.com/howto-use-iwconfig/>
If you're unable to connect to the net then copy the output textfile
to a connected machine using a USB key or floppy disk.
It seems, however, that you're not alone in having problems with this
card: <http://www.google.com/search?q=madwifi+AR5006EG>. It looks to
me that if you use the latest version of the madwifi drivers then you
may be successful, but you may find madwifi's own mailing lists more
helpful. I don't think you need to use NDISwrapper, although I have
to confess that I am slightly religious on this matter.
Stroller.
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