Re: Problems connecting using Atheros/madwifi

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:33 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> > What you need to do to debug this is the following...  In a separate
> > window, run the command "watch -n 1 iwconfig ath0" and let that run
> > while NM is trying to associate with the AP.  Look at the MAC address
> > that the card reports, and if it changes to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF too often
> > during the link check, then we need to figure out what to do.
> [ snip ]
> > So, if you could do the "watch" thing, that would be great, and report
> > teh results, ie do you see the MAC address be FF:FF:FF... for most of
> > the period when NetworkManager tries to connect to it?  Dos it usually
> > stay at the access points MAC?
> 
> I did this..  I'm running FC3 with all the current updates (as of yesterday).  I
> ran this test and yes, it changes to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF very often during the
> link check.
> 
> lspci -v reports:
> 
> 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Commnuications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC
> (rev 01)
>     Subsystem: Unknown device 17ab:8331
>     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
>     Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>     Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> 
> I also see the following information in /var/log/messages:
> 
> NetworkManager: Warning: the wireless card (ath0) requires too much time for
> scans.  Its driver needs to be fixed.

Part of this is a problem with wireless-tools, for which I'm pushing an
FC3 update right now...

> When I try to connect from NetworkManagerInfo I get a warning message:
> 
> The request wireless network 'my-network' does not appear to be in range.  A
> different wireless network will be used if any are available.

This probably happens because scans don't work, and therefore
NetworkManager can't find networks to connect to.

Dan