Hi,
After a week of fighting with madwifi drivers finally i have my Atheros 5006X AR5413 working.
[email protected]:~$ sudo ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3a:3f:ec:5f inet6 addr: fe80::21f:3aff:fe3f:ec5f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:68:11:f8:31 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4578 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2341 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3712737 (3.5 MB) TX bytes:294125 (287.2 KB) Interrupt:252 Base address:0x2000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:500 (500.0 B) TX bytes:500 (500.0 B) wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1F-3A-3F-EC-5F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:15883 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3134 TX packets:583 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:280 RX bytes:1360545 (1.2 MB) TX bytes:26818 (26.1 KB) Interrupt:19
[email protected]:~$ sudo iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wifi0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm Rx invalid nwid:15721 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
[email protected]:~$ sudo lshw -C network *-network description: Ethernet interface product: MCP67 Ethernet vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: a bus info: [email protected]:00:0a.0 logical name: eth0 version: a2 serial: 00:1e:68:11:f8:31 capacity: 100MB/s width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 latency=0 link=no maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes port=MII *-network description: Wireless interface product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter vendor: Atheros Communications Inc. physical id: 0 bus info: [email protected]:03:00.0 logical name: wifi0 version: 01 serial: 00:1f:3a:3f:ec:5f width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci latency=0 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
i’ve made:
[email protected]:~$ sudo ifconfig ath0 down [email protected]:~$ sudo dhclient -r ath0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801 wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/ath0/00:1f:3a:3f:ec:5f Sending on LPF/ath0/00:1f:3a:3f:ec:5f Sending on Socket/fallback [email protected]:~$ sudo ifconfig ath0 up [email protected]:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "neciak" [email protected]:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 key 1DD25AA75 [email protected]:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 mode Managed [email protected]:~$ sudo dhclient ath0 There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801 wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/ath0/00:1f:3a:3f:ec:5f Sending on LPF/ath0/00:1f:3a:3f:ec:5f Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Is there something wrong with DHCP? i’ve already tried dhcpcd and it didn’t work either.
I cant connect either using any of the managers.
Its my first distro so please be patient.