[Gllug] Madwifi drivers

[Mike Brodbelt]

Hi,

Is anyone here experienced with the madwifi drivers? I've got an Atheros
5212 based mini PCI wireless card which I'm trying to drive with little
success. I've checked out the latest madwifi CVS, and built the
appropriate modules for them. The modules load successfully:-

ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
ath_pci: 0.9.4.12 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:05:4e:47:60:18
ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xd0200000, irq=11

Trying to ifup the interface produces a DHCPDISCOVER, which sometimes
gets as far as getting an IP address (but sometimes doesn't). I might
manage to get a few ping packets back if I'm lucky, but I never get more
than 5 or 10 packets back before the interface locks up totally (if I'm
lucky) or the laptop locks up, requiring battery removal (if I'm less
lucky). And it taints the kernel to boot.

I've tried the latest CVS, packages from ftp://debian.marlow.dk/. My
interfaces file looks like this (wep key and ssid altered for posting):-


iface ath0 inet dhcp
        wireless_mode ad-hoc
        wireless_channel 11
        wireless_key e7fb2a29ca59154fff537d4bb5
        wireless_essid local-network-ssid

Any ideas appreciated.... I'd consider a different card, but IBM seem to
lock their damn BIOS'es to a list of about 4 "approved" cards....

Mike.
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