phunni Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 OK - so my last card simply didn't seem to work under ndiswrapper or anything else, so I swapped it with someone at work. The card I have now appears to have an atheros chipset, so I've installed madwifi. That seems to have worked Ok and I now have the ath_pci module which is being loaded perfectly well. The trouble is that there is no XXX0 (i.e. ath0 or wlan0 or eth0) device at all... I've added: alias ath0 ath_pci to my /etc/modprobe.conf I'm confident I've set everything up correctly in /etc/rc.conf so - does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting no love from this card...? Could it just be that the driver/card doesn't work (there is a light on at the back of the card...) or perhaps a solution that would make me happier... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 did you install the wireless tools? pacman -S wireless_tools Also be sure you've done all the steps in the wireless wiki for madwifi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 wireless-tools is installed as part of the base install I believe - certainly it's installed... I did try and follow all the steps in the wiki, but the first one - "ifconfig ath0 up" results in a "no such device"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 wireless-tools is installed as part of the base install I believe - certainly it's installed... considering the wiki tells you to explicitly install it, i'm not sure it is. you should check ;) (takes like 2 seconds :P) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Just as an offside, I never got madwifi to work with my atheros chipset card. I did however, get it working with ndiswrapper in arch though for a certain period until an upgrade broke it. Mandriva also never worked with madwifi, but works well with ndiswrapper and my atheros ar5211+ I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 wireless-tools is definately installed - and I'm pretty sure it happened during the install... Perhaps it's only included in the base in the later releases... One thing I'm nto sure about from the wiki is: wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta although it seems to suggest it might not be necessary anyway... When I run that though I'm told that "sta" is an invalid option for create - should I be replacing it with something else...? Othwerwise I may well just give Ian's suggestion of ndiswrapepr a go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 One other thing to note, madwifi has constantly been in beta! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 ndiswrapper is working a treat - doing my first update as we speak! Of course - there's every chance that it won't work again after the update! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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