RE: [Madwifi-users] Funky problems .... help ? (ath_pci)

[John B. <jby...@ya...>]

Paul,

If you use the athdebug tool to figure out whether it's associating or
not... it would help in troubleshooting.

athdebug +state

This will give you the states that the card is in.  Sometimes the state
machine will not complete authorization and can not receive packets because
of that.  (That's what was happening to me.)

John

John Byrne
Software Engineer and Systems Administrator
WebSpring
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mad...@li... [mailto:madwifi-users-
> ad...@li...] On Behalf Of Paul Lundin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:29 AM
> To: mad...@li...
> Subject: [Madwifi-users] Funky problems .... help ? (ath_pci)
> 
> I am having issues getting ath_pci to work with my wireless networks
> (1 home, 1 work). As it currently stands the driver compiles and
> installs fine, and I can scan and see the networks I am attempting to
> use. The drivers are from the current bz2 file on the main website.
> 
> On my home network I cannot get a dhcp lease from my linksys router.
> The router sends the lease and thinks I have accepted it, but my
> system (dhcpcd or dhclient) complains about not receiving a valid
> offer. The exact error is:
> "timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response"
> 
> I have tried manually configuring via iwconfig and using the gentoo
> supplied network scirpts. Currently I am trying to use wpa_supplicant.
> All of which appear to die somewhere in the dhcp lease offer/response
> exchange. I have tried several different dhcp options including
> setting the hostname and re-requesting the lease. The network is plain
> jane WEP/MAC filter (both of which are confirmed working on other
> machines, linux and windows) which from the router side doesnt seem to
> be an issue since it says it has sent the lease.
> 
> In the second scenario I am using the same laptop/install but with a
> different network. This time we are dying before we get to the point
> of dhcp. The exact error is as follows:
> "ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Argument list to long"
> 
> I get the same error regardless of weather or not I use WEP on the
> router/client.
> 
> In both cases it picks up the correct AP/SSID. I am using the
> following config from wpa_supplicant:
> 
> ap_scan=1
> fast_reauth=1
> 
> network={
>         ssid="XXX"
>         key_mgmt=NONE
>         wep_key0=(key placed in 123456 format)
>         priority=5
>         auth_alg=SHARED
> }
> network={
>         ssid="XXX"
>         scan_ssid=1
>         key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
>         eap=LEAP
>         identity="username"
>         password="password"
>         priority=3
> }
> 
> I have the following modules loaded (I have tried varying combos.):
> ieee80211_crypt_tkip  10180  0
> ieee80211                     47236  0
> ieee80211_crypt          5640  2 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211
> ath_pci                           71900  0
> ath_rate_sample         15048  1 ath_pci
> wlan                                133148  3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
> ath_hal                           147216  3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
> 
> I have also tried using iwconfig ... though for my configuration
> (multiple networks) it is a pain, I would be more than happy to try
> anything config wise.
> 
> Are there any known issues with the ath_pci driver specifically in
> this setup ? I have an IBM t41 with the 5212 chipset.
> 
> Any assistance is appreciated, I know this probably isnt a driver
> issue (though it might be) but I have gone as far as I can without
> some help.
> 
> 
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