[Wylug-help] Madwifi and FC6

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 15:42:52 John Hodrien wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > No, I wasn't.  I knew I had read something about NetworkManager, but
> > couldn't remember anything about it.  I didn't even know whether it was
> > installed. However, the commands worked without a problem, but nm-applet
> > tells me that it can find no connection.  Probably I'd be as well leaving
> > this until tomorrow - unless you have any more ideas.  I'm going to CCL
> > tomorrow anyway, so I'll buy an antenna adapter/extended.  I seriously
> > doubt whether the short supplied antenna can actually get much of a
> > signal, so I need to lift it to line-of-sight.
>
> I guess it's promising that it thinks you have no connection rather than no
> wifi card if you see what I mean.
>
> > If you think I'm on the wrong track there, do say so, but this is a PCI
> > card, and the antenna barely clears the box case.
>
> As I said, I've only tried this route with two different intel chipset
> based laptops, so it could behave somewhat differently.  I've certainly
> found wpa_supplicant to be driver sensitive.
>
> jh

I've extended the antenna, but it hasn't helped.  Here's what is happening at 
bootup:

ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.3.1)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.1)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.3.1)
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[00023c002105a814]
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: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
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=0xea000000, irq=18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20

It looks OK to me?  Can you thiink of anything else I could check?

Anne