[Madwifi-users] Don't work? (AR5212 802.11abg, Slackware 10.1, Linux 2.4.31)

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Hi!

I download cvs files on 03/09/05 and I have installed madwifi drivers 
whithout compilation problems but when start device I do not succeed to 
connect me to the access point.

I use ath0raw to look what happens, but ethereal report more malformed 
packets (with wlan_check_fcs = yes/no).

On ifconfg only "errors" is incremented, no tx/rx packets, athstats 
report:

1641    tx management frames
15      tx frames discarded prior to association
821     tx frames with no ack marked
84831   rx PHY errors:
     84461 OFDM timing
     370 CCK timing
rssi of last ack: 19
rssi of last rcv: 19
23      switched default/rx antenna
Antenna profile:
[1] tx     1641 rx      900
[2] tx        0 rx     2342

and iwconfig report:

ath0      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"XXXXX"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 00:90:96:XX:XX:XX
           Bit Rate:1Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XX   Security mode:restricted
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

what is wrong? Why I am unable to use my WEP restricted network? Why 
iwlist ath0 encryption report:

ath0      3 key sizes : 40, 104, 128bits
           4 keys available :
                 [1]: XXXX-XXXX-XX (40 bits)
                 [2]: off
                 [3]: off
                 [4]: off
           Current Transmit Key: [1]
           Security mode:restricted

and on my AP I have setup a 64 bits key?

Can someone help me?
Thanks.

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I use a ROPER PCMCIA board model RO80211GA-CB, and my AP have an AskeyCom 
board with 11b radio with WEP enabled; here some information on system 
where I try to run madwifi:

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distribution: SLACKWARE 10.1, kernel: Linux 2.4.31

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lspci -v:

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
         Subsystem: Global Sun Technology Inc: Unknown device 7103
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
         Memory at 20800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

====
lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
wlan_wep                3680   1  (autoclean)
ath_pci                56524   1  (autoclean)
ath_rate_sample        11232   0  (autoclean) [ath_pci]
wlan                  106844   1  (autoclean) [wlan_wep ath_pci ath_rate_sample]
ath_hal               133904   1  (autoclean) [ath_pci ath_rate_sample]
ds                      6932   2
yenta_socket           11012   2
pcmcia_core            45252   0  [ds yenta_socket]

====
/etc/modules.conf:

alias           ath0                    ath_pci
post-install    ath0                    /etc/rc.d/rc.madwifi

====
/etc/rc.d/rc.madwifi:

/sbin/iwconfig ath0 channel     6
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 key         "XXXXXXXXXX"
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 essid       "XXXXX"

====
syslog after ifconfig:

kernel: PCI: Enabling device 04:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/ath_hal.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary
insmod:   See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
insmod: Module ath_hal loaded, with warnings
insmod: Module wlan loaded, with warnings
insmod: Module ath_rate_sample loaded, with warnings
insmod: Module ath_pci loaded, with warnings
kernel: Build date: Sep  2 2005
kernel: Debugging version (IEEE80211)
kernel: ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
kernel: ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
kernel: ath0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
kernel: ath0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
kernel: ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
kernel: Debugging version (ATH)
kernel: ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x20800000, irq=11

====
iwlist ath0 peers:
ath0      Peers/Access-Points in range:
     00:90:96:XX:XX:XX : Quality:28/94  Signal level:-67 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm (updated)

OSS: but after a while I found more entry, all with same MAC!

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iwlist ath0 scan:

           Cell 01 - Address: 00:90:96:XX:XX:XX
                     ESSID:"RINUX"
                     Mode:Master
                     Frequency:2.437GHz
                     Quality:34/94  Signal level:-61 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
                     Encryption key:on
                     Bit Rate:1Mb/s
                     Bit Rate:2Mb/s
                     Bit Rate:5Mb/s
                     Bit Rate:11Mb/s
                     Extra:bcn_int=100

OSS: but after a while I found more entry: cell 01, 02, 03 with same MAC!

====
ifconfig:

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:2F:XX:XX:XX
           inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX   Mask:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:1235 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:200
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
           Interrupt:11 Memory:e0ef1000-e0f01000

ath0raw   Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:2312  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:1235 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:200
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Thanks,
Rino.
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