Re: [Madwifi-users] Unable to create interface WIFI0 and ATH0

[Benoit P. <ben...@fr...>]

Michael Hogg a écrit :
> I am a new person to linux and have been following the newbie how to guide on the madwifi website.
>
> I am using madwifi-ng-r2525-20070630.  I manage to run the make and make install without any errors but when I run modprobe ath_pci nothing seems to happen and no ATH0 or WIFI0 is created:-
>
> michael@michael-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo iwconfig
> Password:
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
>
> I issued the command "wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta" but still no luck and ATH0 and WIFI0 do not show up in IWCONFIG or IFCONFIG.
>
> I entered command DMESG :-
>
> [   35.285074] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [   35.845528] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> [   35.846443] ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133)
> [   36.052003] wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn r2525)
> [   36.090987] ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r2525)
> [   36.091063] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:06.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> [   36.091072] PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:06.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
> [   36.091097] IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 0
>   
This is your problem. Your system is unable to locate the IRQ line used 
by this PCI device. It is probably related to pci=biosirq, pnp stuff and 
so on. Is this an internal card ? I would suggest to go to your BIOS 
menu and say "No" to "Plug and Play OS". Doing so, the BIOS might 
initialize the IRQ and let it know to linux.

Best regards,
Benoit