Re: madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards

2008-11-05 Thread PH mooraa
Just for someone's good, I am mentioning how the problem was solved..

what - atheros AR5413 (ar5006x) cards, madwifi livna rpms, adhoc mode, and
configuration scripts I described at the start of the thread -- no traffic
between peers

No matter what configuration I set in ifcfg-ath0, network manager was
changing something. It has to be related to authentication because the cards
would send packets but would never receive anything form anyone. I had
iwpriv authmode 1 and wpa 0 in my ifcfg-ath0. I had disabled
wpa_supplicant and still no successful pings anywhere..

Because network manager was doing something fishy, I stopped it using
ntsysv. I was able to connect cards in adhoc mode. They will not connect
automatically as NM is not running, but I added a workaround in rc.local
saying service network restart.

I am still searching what NetworkManager was doing which blocked all
incoming traffic in adhoc mode in madwifi. If found, will file a bug for
sure. Its F9 too because same configuration worked fine on other distros.

-phm

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:13 PM, PH mooraa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks Martin for your reply.

 I tried the recent madwifi-hal but still the same problem. I think the
 problem is somewhere else because in dmesg it can be seen that ath_pci finds
 correct chipset and loads properly. There are no error there.

 I added a vista laptop (intel wireless card) to the adhoc network and ran
 wireshark on it. When I ping the laptop from F9 machine, I can see that ARP
 arrives at laptop and laptop replies it with its MAC. But then that reply is
 never accepted by F9 machines. Its like, it drops those packets somehow and
 Rx packets in ifconfig ath0 remains 0 (there are many Tx packets though).

 Is there some preset security in F9 blocking this? It says an unsecured
 network in Vista laptop. What else it can be because same think on Ubuntu
 runs just fine..

 Any pointers??


 On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Martín Marqués [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 I have an AR242x. Livna madwifi didn't work at all.

 Solution: Download madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903, compile and
 install.

 2008/10/27 PH mooraa [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  If someone can please help. same cards AR5413 (ar5006x) work with
  madwifi-0.9.4 on ubuntu but does not work on Fedora. I tried upgrading
  kernel too but still no luck.
 
  ath5k which comes built in in F9 works with this card. Initially some
 howto
  mentioned to blacklist this module before loading madwifi's ath_pci.
 Isn't
  ath5k still in starting phase? Has someone tried to use it with ar5413
  (ar5006x) cards?
 
  thanks,
 
 
  On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, PH mooraa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hi All,
 
  --
  reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is
 with
  Fedora not madwifi
  --
 
  I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with
  following -
 
  #uname -a
  Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1
 06:28:41
  EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
 
  There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc
  mode. (livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386,
 kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
  kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
  madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386)
 
  In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are
 not
  able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0
 does not
  receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one
 from
  another. routes are set.
 
  #iwconfig
  ath0  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:wmnad  Nickname:localhost.localdomain
Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A
Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=46/70  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:7069  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
 
  #ifconfig
  ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A
inet addr:11.11.11.1  Bcast:11.11.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB)
 
  wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
  00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464
TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB)
 
  On both machines ath0 RX 

Re: madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards

2008-10-28 Thread Martín Marqués
I have an AR242x. Livna madwifi didn't work at all.

Solution: Download madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903, compile and install.

2008/10/27 PH mooraa [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 If someone can please help. same cards AR5413 (ar5006x) work with
 madwifi-0.9.4 on ubuntu but does not work on Fedora. I tried upgrading
 kernel too but still no luck.

 ath5k which comes built in in F9 works with this card. Initially some howto
 mentioned to blacklist this module before loading madwifi's ath_pci. Isn't
 ath5k still in starting phase? Has someone tried to use it with ar5413
 (ar5006x) cards?

 thanks,


 On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, PH mooraa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi All,

 --
 reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is with
 Fedora not madwifi
 --

 I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with
 following -

 #uname -a
 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41
 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

 There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc
 mode. (livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386, kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
 kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
 madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386)

 In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are not
 able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0 does not
 receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one from
 another. routes are set.

 #iwconfig
 ath0  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:wmnad  Nickname:localhost.localdomain
   Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A
   Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
   Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
   Encryption key:off
   Power Management:off
   Link Quality=46/70  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-87 dBm
   Rx invalid nwid:7069  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
   Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

 #ifconfig
 ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A
   inet addr:11.11.11.1  Bcast:11.11.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
   inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link
   UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
   TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
   RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB)

 wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
 00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
   RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464
   TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
   RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB)

 On both machines ath0 RX packets remains 0 and I don't know why is this
 happening!!! Can someone please help..

 I think that there no problems with ath_pci loading as can be seen -

 #dmesg
 ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
 ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
 ..
 wlan: 0.9.4
 ath_pci: 0.9.4
 ..
 ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
 wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
 wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
 wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
 wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
 wifi0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
 wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
 wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdef, irq=18
 ..
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present
 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present

 My configuration file for interface is like -

 #cat ifcfg-ath0
 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
 # for the documentation of these parameters.
 TYPE=Wireless
 DEVICE=ath0
 HWADDR=00:02:6f:51:77:3a
 BOOTPROTO=none
 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
 DHCP_HOSTNAME=
 IPADDR=11.11.11.1
 DOMAIN=
 ONBOOT=no
 USERCTL=no
 PEERDNS=yes
 IPV6INIT=no
 ESSID=cwmnad
 CHANNEL=1
 MODE=Ad-Hoc
 RATE=auto
 ENCRYPTION=off
 SECURITYMODE=off
 IWPRIV=authmode 1

 In last 3 lines, I overdid security because initially I thought the
 problem is due to authentication. I don't want any security at this point.

 [ Other tests -
 - the same card works in managed mode and connects to my building's WLAN
 AP. This makes me wonder more what I doing wrong.
 - same cards with madwifi 0.9.4 works on Ubuntu in ad-hoc mode which shows
 that something in Fodora is going wrong. I really like F9 and really don't
 want to switch to 

Re: madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards

2008-10-28 Thread PH mooraa
Thanks Martin for your reply.

I tried the recent madwifi-hal but still the same problem. I think the
problem is somewhere else because in dmesg it can be seen that ath_pci finds
correct chipset and loads properly. There are no error there.

I added a vista laptop (intel wireless card) to the adhoc network and ran
wireshark on it. When I ping the laptop from F9 machine, I can see that ARP
arrives at laptop and laptop replies it with its MAC. But then that reply is
never accepted by F9 machines. Its like, it drops those packets somehow and
Rx packets in ifconfig ath0 remains 0 (there are many Tx packets though).

Is there some preset security in F9 blocking this? It says an unsecured
network in Vista laptop. What else it can be because same think on Ubuntu
runs just fine..

Any pointers??

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Martín Marqués [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 I have an AR242x. Livna madwifi didn't work at all.

 Solution: Download madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903, compile and
 install.

 2008/10/27 PH mooraa [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  If someone can please help. same cards AR5413 (ar5006x) work with
  madwifi-0.9.4 on ubuntu but does not work on Fedora. I tried upgrading
  kernel too but still no luck.
 
  ath5k which comes built in in F9 works with this card. Initially some
 howto
  mentioned to blacklist this module before loading madwifi's ath_pci.
 Isn't
  ath5k still in starting phase? Has someone tried to use it with ar5413
  (ar5006x) cards?
 
  thanks,
 
 
  On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, PH mooraa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hi All,
 
  --
  reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is with
  Fedora not madwifi
  --
 
  I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with
  following -
 
  #uname -a
  Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41
  EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
 
  There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc
  mode. (livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386,
 kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
  kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
  madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386)
 
  In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are not
  able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0 does
 not
  receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one from
  another. routes are set.
 
  #iwconfig
  ath0  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:wmnad  Nickname:localhost.localdomain
Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A
Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=46/70  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:7069  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
 
  #ifconfig
  ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A
inet addr:11.11.11.1  Bcast:11.11.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB)
 
  wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
  00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464
TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB)
 
  On both machines ath0 RX packets remains 0 and I don't know why is this
  happening!!! Can someone please help..
 
  I think that there no problems with ath_pci loading as can be seen -
 
  #dmesg
  ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
  ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
 RF5413)
  ..
  wlan: 0.9.4
  ath_pci: 0.9.4
  ..
  ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
  wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
  wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
  wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
  24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
  wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
  wifi0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
  wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
  wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
  wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
  wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
  wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
  wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
  wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdef, irq=18
  ..
  ath0: no IPv6 routers present
  ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
  ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
 

madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards

2008-10-27 Thread PH mooraa
Hi All,

--
reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is with
Fedora not madwifi
--

I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with following
-

#uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT
2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc mode.
(livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386, kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386)

In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are not
able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0 does not
receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one from
another. routes are set.

#iwconfig
ath0  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:wmnad  Nickname:localhost.localdomain
  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A
  Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
  Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:off
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality=46/70  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-87 dBm
  Rx invalid nwid:7069  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

#ifconfig
ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A
  inet addr:11.11.11.1  Bcast:11.11.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464
  TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
  RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB)

On both machines ath0 RX packets remains 0 and I don't know why is this
happening!!! Can someone please help..

I think that there no problems with ath_pci loading as can be seen -

#dmesg
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
..
wlan: 0.9.4
ath_pci: 0.9.4
..
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdef, irq=18
..
ath0: no IPv6 routers present
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
ath0: no IPv6 routers present
ath0: no IPv6 routers present

My configuration file for interface is like -

#cat ifcfg-ath0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=ath0
HWADDR=00:02:6f:51:77:3a
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=11.11.11.1
DOMAIN=
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=cwmnad
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Ad-Hoc
RATE=auto
ENCRYPTION=off
SECURITYMODE=off
IWPRIV=authmode 1

In last 3 lines, I overdid security because initially I thought the problem
is due to authentication. I don't want any security at this point.

[ Other tests -
- the same card works in managed mode and connects to my building's WLAN AP.
This makes me wonder more what I doing wrong.
- same cards with madwifi 0.9.4 works on Ubuntu in ad-hoc mode which shows
that something in Fodora is going wrong. I really like F9 and really don't
want to switch to ubuntu. ]


Any help is really appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
phm
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Re: madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards

2008-10-27 Thread PH mooraa
If someone can please help. same cards AR5413 (ar5006x) work with
madwifi-0.9.4 on ubuntu but does not work on Fedora. I tried upgrading
kernel too but still no luck.

ath5k which comes built in in F9 works with this card. Initially some howto
mentioned to blacklist this module before loading madwifi's ath_pci. Isn't
ath5k still in starting phase? Has someone tried to use it with ar5413
(ar5006x) cards?

thanks,


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, PH mooraa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi All,

 --
 reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is with
 Fedora not madwifi
 --

 I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with
 following -

 #uname -a
 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41
 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

 There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc
 mode. (livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386, kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
 kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
 madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386)

 In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are not
 able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0 does not
 receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one from
 another. routes are set.

 #iwconfig
 ath0  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:wmnad  Nickname:localhost.localdomain
   Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A
   Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
   Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
   Encryption key:off
   Power Management:off
   Link Quality=46/70  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-87 dBm
   Rx invalid nwid:7069  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
   Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

 #ifconfig
 ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A
   inet addr:11.11.11.1  Bcast:11.11.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
   inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link
   UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
   TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
   RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB)

 wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
 00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
   RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464
   TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
   RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB)

 On both machines ath0 RX packets remains 0 and I don't know why is this
 happening!!! Can someone please help..

 I think that there no problems with ath_pci loading as can be seen -

 #dmesg
 ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
 ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
 ..
 wlan: 0.9.4
 ath_pci: 0.9.4
 ..
 ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
 wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
 wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
 wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
 wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
 wifi0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
 wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
 wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
 wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdef, irq=18
 ..
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present
 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present
 ath0: no IPv6 routers present

 My configuration file for interface is like -

 #cat ifcfg-ath0
 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
 # for the documentation of these parameters.
 TYPE=Wireless
 DEVICE=ath0
 HWADDR=00:02:6f:51:77:3a
 BOOTPROTO=none
 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
 DHCP_HOSTNAME=
 IPADDR=11.11.11.1
 DOMAIN=
 ONBOOT=no
 USERCTL=no
 PEERDNS=yes
 IPV6INIT=no
 ESSID=cwmnad
 CHANNEL=1
 MODE=Ad-Hoc
 RATE=auto
 ENCRYPTION=off
 SECURITYMODE=off
 IWPRIV=authmode 1

 In last 3 lines, I overdid security because initially I thought the problem
 is due to authentication. I don't want any security at this point.

 [ Other tests -
 - the same card works in managed mode and connects to my building's WLAN
 AP. This makes me wonder more what I doing wrong.
 - same cards with madwifi 0.9.4 works on Ubuntu in ad-hoc mode which shows
 that something in Fodora is going wrong. I really like F9 and really don't
 want to switch to ubuntu. ]


 Any help is really appreciated.

 Thanks in advance,
 phm

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