[Madwifi-users] Nothing works

[Thomas S. <tw...@co...>]

I recently purchased an AT&T PCI NIC and a AT&T PCMCIA card, and 
attempted to setup one of my debian boxes as a WAP for the laptop. So 
far nothing works. These are the "Super G" cards, I know the 108MB/s is 
not going to happen with madwifi, that's cool. Here's all the info, 
hopefully someone can help. This is the first time I have attempted to 
setup wireless networking, so I don't know what information is useful or 
  not. If anyone needs more info, I can do that.

When both cards are installed in WindowsXP systems, in ad-hoc mode, 
everything works perfect, so the hardware is fine.

Server
Debian (2.4.27) also tried (2.6.8)
madwifi Jan 26,27,28 CVS

The modules compile fine. They load, and I set it up in master mode.

lightning:/usr/src/madwifi# iwconfig ath0
ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"testnetwork"
           Mode:Master  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:0D:14:00:D5:AA
           Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:69  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:1  Invalid misc:4   Missed beacon:0


lightning:/usr/src/madwifi# ifconfig ath0
ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:14:00:D5:AA
           inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:223 errors:63624 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:63624
           TX packets:163 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
           RX bytes:20160 (19.6 KiB)  TX bytes:24595 (24.0 KiB)
           Interrupt:11 Memory:d08b0000-d08c0000

The WindowsXP laptop sees the network and connects, Windows reports 
"Excellent" for the connection.

An attempt to ping the server (from the laptop) results in about 1 reply 
to every 70-80 packets sent.

Now for the Laptop

Debian (2.6.7)
madwifi CVS Jan 28

The modules will not compile. I just get many errors during make. Here 
are some.

*** Warning: "ath_hal_init_channels" 
[/usr/src/madwifi/tmp/madwifi/ath/ath_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "ath_hal_probe" 
[/usr/src/madwifi/tmp/madwifi/ath/ath_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "ath_hal_detach" 
[/usr/src/madwifi/tmp/madwifi/ath/ath_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "ath_hal_mhz2ieee" 
[/usr/src/madwifi/tmp/madwifi/ath/ath_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "ath_hal_computetxtime" 
[/usr/src/madwifi/tmp/madwifi/ath/ath_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "_ath_hal_attach" 
[/usr/src/madwifi/tmp/madwifi/ath/ath_pci.ko] undefined!