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Wireless help?
\ Grant (1 Dec 2007)
. \ Galevsky (1 Dec 2007)
. \ Mick (1 Dec 2007)
. \ Stroller (1 Dec 2007)
. . \ Grant (1 Dec 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Wireless help?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Grant
Date:	1 Dec 2007

> > 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.

According to a ticket at madwifi.org it's only working with
ndiswrapper currently. I've actually been using madwifi and
wpa_supplicant happily for years now with a PCMCIA card and a couple
of PCI cards but this new one isn't cooperating. Thanks for the help.

- Grant
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