[Madwifi-devel] Re: [Madwifi-users] Wireless working, but unable to reach my gateway

[Satish B. <ba...@fa...>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Eric Benson wrote:

> On a Thinkpad T41p with the IBM 802.11a/b/g MiniPCI Atheros card, I 
> installed Fedora Core 2 Test 3 and updated all packages yesterday. It's 
> running kernel 2.6.5-1.358. Also yesterday, I got a fresh CVS checkout 
> of madwifi, built and installed modules. Networking with the e1000 is 
> working fine. The ath0 interface comes up and contacts my access point 
> just fine.

e1000 appears to work fine with APM - but breaksdown after suspend
with ACPI (with the FC2T3 kernel).

> I'm able to reach all of the machines on my local network, 
> EXCEPT the gateway. Has anyone run into a problem like this before? The 
> access point is a Linksys WAP11 and the gateway is a Linksys BEFW11S4 
> with firmware version 1.50.10. Note that the gateway is also an access 
> point, but it is almost completely out of range.

I just tried using today's FC2-beta updates with today's madwifi CVS
snapshot.  Was able to build the drivers (with warnings) - and use dhcp
with 802.11b AP. However the network freezes after some data transfer.

I tried 'modprobe -r ath_pci; modprobe ath_pci ; ifup ath0' - it just
hung there. Now 'modprobe -r ath_pci' also hangs.. (kernel doesn't
shoutdown properly)

This is with a T40 with a/b mpini-pci card. Perhaps this is a
different problem I've encountered..

Satish