Re: [Mactel-linux-users] How to uninstall madwifi driver

[Justin P. M. <jus...@gm...>]

Tomás Teijeiro wrote:
> Yes, I Can see "wmaster0", "wlan0" and a strange "pam0" interfaces. The 
> strange thing is that with a clean installation or with a live-CD, wlan0 shows 
> the available networks and can connect to them, but after having installed 
> madwifi, and then uninstalled it (or blacklisted the ath_pci module), the wlan0 
> interface find any network. And yes, all the interfaces are up (thank you very 
> much, k11stan).
>
> My macbook version is (2,1), and I have never used the bcmxx module, no 
> broadcom chips are present in this version.
>
> Thank you very much
>
>
> El Wednesday 31 December 2008 18:45:02 Justin P. Mattock escribió:
>   
>> Tomás Teijeiro wrote:
>>     
>>> OK, I've blacklisted ath_pci and then on reboot ath9k has been loaded
>>> instead of madwifi. Sadly, the problem remains, and no networks are found
>>> in any way. It's totally incredible.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble. Thank you very much
>>>
>>> El Sunday 28 December 2008 23:21:21 Justin P. Mattock escribió:
>>>       
>>>> Well make sure you blacklist one
>>>> Of them, this way there's no confusion. Running ath9k here
>>>> Seems perfect.
>>>>
>>>> Regards;
>>>>
>>>> justin P. Mattock
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 28, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Tomás Teijeiro <tom...@gm...>
>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> El Sunday 28 December 2008 19:55:19 Justin P. Mattock escribió:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Tomás Teijeiro wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a macbook (2,1) with Kubuntu Intrepid x86_64 installed. Since
>>>>>>> wireless works out of the box with ath9k, I've installed the madwifi
>>>>>>> driver (trunk r3878) because of better performance and network
>>>>>>> detection.
>>>>>>> The problem is that if I want to go back to ath9k, no networks are
>>>>>>> found
>>>>>>> and I'm unable to connect to anyone. What I did is to reinstall the
>>>>>>> linux-generic package (at the moment 2.6.27-11-generic). The
>>>>>>> wmaster0 and
>>>>>>> wlan0 interfaces are sucesfully created, but they don't work. No
>>>>>>> special
>>>>>>> dmesg messages are shown. What can I do to recover wireless with
>>>>>>> ath9k?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you very much for your help,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tomas
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Hmm I experience the same issue,
>>>>>> i.g. wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iath0(or wlan0) -c /etc/*
>>>>>> seems to gives me nothing,
>>>>>> but if I use NetworkManager both modules
>>>>>> run fine.
>>>>>> maybe try an older version of wpa_supplicant,
>>>>>> or use NetworkManager, or wicd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Justin P. Mattock
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Thanks Justin,
>>>>>
>>>>> But the problem is that the interfaces don't work properly. For
>>>>> example, if  I
>>>>> execute:
>>>>> iwlist wlan0 scan
>>>>> No networks are found, although there is an AP with WEP encryption
>>>>> near the
>>>>> computer. Moreover, I'm using wicd as my network manager. On the
>>>>> other side,
>>>>> if I test a Kubuntu Intrepid live-CD, wifi works well with ath9k.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that the problem is that the madwifi installation has
>>>>> removed or
>>>>> replaced some key modules of ath9k, but is strange, because the
>>>>> problem
>>>>> remains after booting with different kernels.
>>>>>
>>>>> Again, thank you very much for your help;
>>>>>
>>>>> Tomas
>>>>>
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>> No no problem at all.
>> when you do a iwconfig, do
>> you see only "lo", or do you see
>> "lo", "wmaster0", etc..
>> I can't remember  what macbook you
>> have, but maybe you need the bcmxx
>> module instead.
>>
>> regards;
>>
>> Justin P. Mattock
>>     
>
>   
Well; luckily you have an interface(wlan0);
which tells me that the module is correct.
I think you were loading both modules
at the same time(causing confusion);

regards;

Justin P. Mattock