Re: Wireless card trying to attach to other access points
Sorry, because of the problem I'm writing about among other
things, I don't have the previousw posts of which to include
segments.
Because my prism2.5 onboard card on my thinkpad t23 was not
working, I inserted my pcmcia linksys card. It actually does
connect and works but is only working at extremely slow
speeds--we're talking about bytes and single-digit K/s here!!!
Probably no supprise considering what else is loaded. I had used
the linksys on another thinkpad t23 so I knew to use madwifi and
load ath_pci. Here are what I think are the relevant outputs. Is
there any way to get rid of all of this except the ath0 and eth0
interfaces?
Tia.
/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# allow-hotplug eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid safelyhome
wireless-key 7A35-3330-3931-5152-6132-374F-57
iwconfig:
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"safelyhome? Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:11:24:9E:92:D5
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry short limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"safelyhome? Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:11:24:9E:92:D5
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry short limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=51/70 Signal level=-47 dBm Noise level=-99 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:8 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:38 Missed beacon:0
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"safelyhome" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:11:24:9E:92:D5
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:7A35-3330-3931-5152-6132-374F-57 Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=56/70 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:823 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig:
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:46:17:96:2b
inet addr:10.0.1.6 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:90 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:22246 (21.7 KiB) TX bytes:5007 (4.8 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:8a:2b:68:1c
UP BROADCAST 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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-20-E0-8E-E6-92-77-6C-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:3396 (3.3 KiB)
Interrupt:11
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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 B) TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-13-46-17-96-2B-77-6C-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8904 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:875
TX packets:332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:280
RX bytes:974984 (952.1 KiB) TX bytes:20501 (20.0 KiB)
Interrupt:11
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:e0:8e:e6:92
inet6 addr: fe80::220:e0ff:fe8e:e692/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:3396 (3.3 KiB)
Interrupt:11
lspci -knn (relevant parts)
02:00.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac51]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
02:00.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac51]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
02:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset [1260:3873] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: hostap_pci
Kernel modules: orinoco_pci, hostap_pci
02:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller [8086:1031] (rev 42)
Kernel driver in use: e100
Kernel modules: e100, eepro100
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci
cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 560 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 560 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
irda0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3396 17 0 0 0 0 0 0
wlan0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3396 17 0 0 0 0 0 0
wifi0: 1027876 9429 0 0 0 924 0 0 21949 364 0 0 0 0 0 0
ath0: 22614 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 5007 40 0 0 0 0 0 0
lsmod (parts known to be irrelevant omitted)
Module Size Used by
wlan_wep 5312 1
loop 12748 0
wlan_scan_sta 11200 1
ath_rate_sample 11008 1
ath_pci 202104 0
wlan 193040 5 wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 300672 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
pcmcia 29548 0
firmware_class 6816 1 pcmcia
irtty_sir 4480 0
sir_dev 10724 1 irtty_sir
nsc_ircc 13616 0
irda 95480 2 sir_dev,nsc_ircc
crc_ccitt 2080 1 irda
hostap_pci 40944 2
hostap 88036 1 hostap_pci
ieee80211_crypt 5124 1 hostap
yenta_socket 20620 3
rsrc_nonstatic 9504 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 31892 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
bay 4160 0
shpchp 25528 0
pci_hotplug 23460 1 shpchp
evdev 8000 7
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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