Re: [Madwifi-users] Atheros 5211 chipset issues Toshiba Satellite P25-S507

[Christian C. <cc...@co...>]

Thanks Phil.  I was unhappy about having an unsecured base station, so 
I'll be sure to give this a shot.

One question, if you don't mind.  On my base station, there are 5 forms 
of my key:  The little textual key I enter, and four, long hex keys that 
result.

Which of those 5 keys do you supply to iwconfig?

Thanks,
Christian

Phillip S. Davis wrote:
> Well, here's what you'll need to do to get it working with wep, now that
> I have made it happen:
> 
> first, of course, load the modules
> 
> then do a 
> 
> iwpriv ath0 mode 0                for auto mode
> iwpriv ath0 mode 1                for 802.11a mode
> iwpriv ath0 mode 2 		  for 802.11b mode
> iwpriv ath0 mode 3 		  for 802.11g mode
> 
> this particular laptop only supports a/b of course and I have a b Access
> Point so I did
> 
> iwpriv ath0 mode 2
> 
> then I needed to do a
> 
> ifconfig ath0 up
> 
> then a
> 
> iwconfig ath0 essid netname key keyvalue
> 
> where netname is my AP's ESSID and keyvalue is my particular encryption
> key, you will need to substitute yours there.
> 
> then either manually ifconfig the interface w/ a static ip, or use 
> 
> dhcpcd
> or 
> dhclient 
> 
> depending on your distro, I have redhat 9 so I use dhclient eth1
> 
> and all was happy... 
> 
> Thanks again all, and I hope that helps you too Christian..
> 
> Phil
> 
> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:52, Christian Convey wrote:
> 
>>FWIW, I did manage to get this particular laptop working with the 
>>madwifi driver, under Mandrake 9.1.
>>
>>I never did figure how to get the card using WEP properly, and I never 
>>tried setting the ESSID explicitely.
>>
>>However, with an unsecured WAP (a Linksys base station), things work 
>>fine for me.
>>
>>- C
>>
>>Richard Fish wrote:
>>
>>>Have you done "ifconfig ath0 up" before attempting to set the ESSID?
>>>
>>>-Richard
>>>
>>>Phillip S. Davis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello, I have done multiple searches of mailing lists and google and
>>>>gotten no answers.  I was hoping you could help.  I have an Atheros 5211
>>>>chipset built into my new toshiba satellite p25-s507, and the driver
>>>>loads and recognizes it, but thats about all that wants to work right. 
>>>>when I try and iwconfig it, or iwpriv it, it is not behaving 
>>>>correctly. It is the Mini Pci version of the chipset, built into the 
>>>>laptop, not as
>>>>a pcmcia card.
>>>>I can set it to the 802.11b mode with
>>>>iwpriv ath0 mode 2
>>>>
>>>>and then I get the correct
>>>>
>>>>ath0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:""
>>>>
>>>>when I do iwconfig ath0
>>>>
>>>>but I cannot set the ESSID or force it to stay on the right channel
>>>>either, I have even tried to set all the parameters for it, not just the
>>>>essid and key like I normally must, some parameters change, and some do
>>>>not.  I cannot make it go to the correct channel at all... but iwconfig
>>>>gives me no error, it just behaves as if it DID set the channel and when
>>>>I do an iwconfig again its still wrong, and it seems to jump to a
>>>>different channel each time...
>>>>
>>>>so I cannot set Essid, (very important) and channel should happen anyway
>>>>if it finds the right AP... I have a orinoco card in the pcmcia slot in
>>>>this laptop working perfectly of course, but would rather use the
>>>>builtin card and have the other for other uses...
>>>>
>>>>Any Ideas...
>>>>
>>>>System specs
>>>>
>>>>Redhat Linux 9, kernel-2.4.20-20.9
>>>>kernel-headers-2.4.20-20.9 madwifi-20030802
>>>>wireless-tools-25-8
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Phil
>>>>phil at daviszone doot orrg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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