Well after trying this suggestion and changing the interfaces file it still
won't detect the card-
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Jeremy,
Not sure if it will help you, but I guess that you need to use wireless tool
to bring the card up. I have the following in my interface. My card is also
madwifi based.
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
address 172.27.0.254
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 172.27.0.255
wireless-mode master
wireless-rate 54M
wireless-essid mySSID
wireless-key myKEY
up /sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3
Note that this is just normal WEP security as I use OpenVPN to login in
actualy later. But you can try this to make sure the card is recognized and
works.
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I started to do a little more checking and comparing. Several people has
suggested I should try the command lspci. My distribution won't support
that but I think this command should be the equivalent- cat /proc/pci
Correct?
If my assumption is correct, I have detected the card by comparing the
output both while the wireless card was in the computer as well as out of
it. The difference is listed here and I believe this is my wireless card.
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Class 0200: PCI device 168c:0020 (rev 1).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=80. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=28.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfcfe0000 [0xfcffffff].
Next, I did a cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 355704 XT-PIC timer
1: 330 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 4190 XT-PIC eth1
8: 0 XT-PIC rtc
11: 4682 XT-PIC eth0
14: 282 XT-PIC ide0
15: 10 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
So, aren't IRQ 2 and 9 the same? I think I remember this from hardware
class many years ago. My problem would appear to be an IRQ conflict.
part of my dmesg looks like this-
wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
wlan: mac acl policy registered
ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
ath_rate_sample: 1.2
ath_pci: 0.9.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
If I try to issue the command ifup ath0 I get-
firewall# ifup ath0
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "default".
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
Cannot find device "ath0"
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
BTW, I am loading the following packages
LRP="root config etc local modules iptables dhcpcd pump hdsupp radius
madwifi wpasupp wireless libm shorwall ulogd dnsmasq dropbear mhttpd weblet
"
I am open to any suggestions anyone has (quick! before I pull my hair out
:-D). Many thanks for your help.
Jeremy
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