[Madwifi-users] routing/driver problems

[CuiBo <cu...@ms...>]

Hi, Madwifiers:

Thanks for the tremendous drivers.  Currently, I am building a 4 interface high performance router with two NICS (internet, wired ethernet) and two Atheros (802.11g ar5006eg/ar5007eg and 802.11n ar5008) cards on an X86 computer.  I am having some problems with routing on the wireless side.

To simplify things and for debugging purposes, I have dropped to a simplistic hardware configuration. Now, there is a realtek 8111C pci-E gigabit ethernet card for internet and an Atheros 802.11g ar5006eg/ar5007eg pci-E wireless card in master mode.  To isolate the software problem, I also stopped the standard Hostapd demon for WPA security services and the firewall that does IP masquerading from the wireless network to the wired.  Right now, there is only a dhcp server running on the router's ar5006eg/ar5007eg pci-E interface.  Currently, there is no security of any kind on the interface.

My understanding is that this is about as bare in terms of software as you can go. And under these circumstances, if the madwifi driver is working correctly, then I should be able to connect wirelessly to the ar5006eg/5007eg, get an IP address, and be able to ping the ar5006eg/5007eg interface.  In short, I have tried the new hal snapshots R3835 and R3861, I get a correct address on the remote wireless interface, but I can't ping the ar5006eg/5007eg interface.

Is this a driver problem? Please find some technical read outs below

Thanks,

Bo




lspci -vnn output
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Unknown device [147b:1033]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
    Memory at fbcf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
    Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
    Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
    Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel


iwconfig output
ath2      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Universal-NET"  Nickname:""
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Access Point: 00:15:AF:1A:EE:5F   
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:17 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=51/70  Signal level=-45 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:75  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0








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