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Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418



Le (on) Thursday 04 September 2008 02:40, Celejar a écrit (wrote) :

>> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> 
> This line generally appears when the card comes on-line; if all goes well,
> it should soon be followed by something like 'ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE):
> eth0: link becomes ready'
> 
Well, the whole point is, it isn't followed by any "link becomes ready"
message (unless I modprobe -r ath9k && modprobe ath9k, which is a pain).

> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> eth0: direct probe to AP 00:17:5a:4f:31:c0 try 1
> eth0 direct probe responded
> eth0: authenticate with AP 00:17:5a:4f:31:c0
> eth0: authenticated
> eth0: associate with AP 00:17:5a:4f:31:c0
> eth0: RX AssocResp from 00:17:5a:4f:31:c0 (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=53)
> eth0: associated
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> 
It's exactly what happens on my box /after/ I removed and reprobed the
driver, and what I would like to happen automatically.

> I'm not much of an expert, but here are a couple of suggestions:
> 
> Try disabling WEP, and see if the problem persists.

It does.

> Try configuring the interface manually, without DHCP:
> ifconfig wlan0 up
> iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxxxxxx
> ifconfig wlan0 x.x.x.x
> 
I tried. I doesn't change anything. The chip remains "non associated" to any
AP, and the only things I can see in syslog is the above mentionned "links
is not ready" message when I try tu use dhclient. Static IP configuration
doesn't work either.

Unless somebody comes with an idea about what I'm doing, I'll assume this is
a problem with the driver and report on ath9k-devel.

Thanks for your suggestions,
Manuel.


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