[Madwifi-users] Re: dwl-g650 rev C2 - FC2 2.6.6-1-435smp: No CommunicatioN
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From: pouet <pou...@ya...> - 2004-06-18 17:42:22
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Oups, soory about the dmesg's stuff, it shows: ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: 0.9.9.12 ath_pci: 0.9.2.0-WPA (EXPERIMENTAL) wlan: 0.8.2.0-WPA (EXPERIMENTAL) Hey there are two ath_hal here! Is it ok? (there is nothing about ath0...) Per Bjornsson wrote: > I think that there may have been some problems with some PC Card network > cards in Fedora Core 2 caused by the startup order of networking and > PCMCIA. It worked for me on another notebook though (with a Prism > 802.11b card). Anyways, I don't know much about it but it could possibly > be related to your problem. Is there any difference if the card is in > the computer when you start it up or if you hotplug it later? > no there is no difference, when the system try to bring up ath0 it's say that ath_pci is not present... > >>I've searched around and see that those lines have sometime been added: >>device "ath_pci" >> class "network" module "wlan", "ath_hal", "ath_pci" > > > Hmm. Were you using the Head branch before? Perhaps "wlan" automatically > pulls in the encryption module as well, otherwise it seems that that one > is missing. Sounds like Kudzu or something tried to be smart. I just > told Kudzu to ignore my Atheros card since I assumed that it wouldn't > have a clue what to do about it. Today it appeared to re-detect the card > (no clue why), I just told it to ignore the card and everything worked > fine. > What do you mean by "Head branch"? How can you told kudzu to ignore stuff? >>It's not working better (but now the system hang at startup again with >>the card plugged in, at least showing that the card is not totally >>transparent to the system), but I noticed something strange in the >>network configuration GUI (neat): >>In the first tab I have 2 lines: >>Desactivated ath0 ath0 Wireless >>Activated eth0 eth0 Ethernet > > > I believe that all the "devices" in that tab simply correspond to the > different ifcfg-foo files in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices. > > >>In the second tab (Material) I have this: >>AR5212 802.11abg NIC Ethernet eth0 Ok > > > OK now that's truly strange, my Atheros card doesn't show up at all in > that tab, I always assumed that this was because the driver wasn't > shipped with the distribution. Perhaps this happened if you let Kudzu do > something? > > Kudzu detected the card when I was using the rpm of madwifi. Now he just detect nothing. >>Really strange and surely near the epicentre of my problem. >>I've suppressed the ath0 (first line in first tab) and then restarted >>the system, now the second tab indicate: >>EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter Ethernet eth0 Ok >> >>I plug the card in the pcmcia port and restarted neat, now it's indicating: >>AR5212 802.11abg NIC Ethernet eth0 Ok It's like the atheros card is "eating" the built-in ethernet card... >> > > This is just getting more and more puzzling... I hope you can get it > sorted out soon! > Thanks! I hope too, I will try again the RPM and see what have changed. bye |