Andrewski Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Ok, still working on my wireless card. The madwifi mailing list has been very bad at responding to my requests, so here once again I turn. [sigh] I think I've gotten the card associated with the AP! Someone recommended I run the iwconfig commands and that I then run ifconfig ath0 up. Huh... that seemed to work: root:andrew$ iwconfig ath0 ap 00:06:25:DB:50:5F root:andrew$ iwconfig ath0 channel 6 root:andrew$ iwconfig ath0 essid linksys root:andrew$ ifconfig ath0 up root:andrew$ iwconfig ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"localhost" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:DB:50:5F Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:off Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:46/94 Signal level:-49 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 root:andrew$ ifconfig ath0 up root:andrew$ ifconfig ath0 ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:92:84:DD UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3692732 errors:268682419 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:69542361 TX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:264235020 (251.9 Mb) TX bytes:6816 (6.6 Kb) Interrupt:10 Memory:d0cae000-d0cbe000 root:andrew$ ifup ath0 Determining IP information for ath0... failed; no link present. Check cable? DHCP is running on my Linksys router and my card seems associated with the AP... am I right, and if so, what am I missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinwhitaker Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 I got this message until I disabled hotplugging (I'm using ndiswrapper, not madwifi, but this looks like the same problem). You can disable hotplugging by adding the line MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes to the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 Alternatively, see here for how I fixed up drakconnect to recognise a new wireless driver, which allows you to set up everything using the GUI (no need to use iwconfig). The tick box for enabling/disabling hot-plugging is hidded under advanced options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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