[Madwifi-users] Madwifi Suse 10.1_64 and D-Link dwl-g650 Cardbus adapter

[Helio N. <hel...@hn...>]

Hi
I have been trying to install above cardbus. After madwifi install from Suse 
especific .rpm  (last version) card is recognized by YAST and could be 
configured a per madwifi instaructions:
MadWifi 'First Time User' HOWTO 
Everything goes as expected but at the end adapter does not get IP via  DHCP. 
Tryed also using a fixed IP which can be seen by iwconfig but cannot "talk" 
to AP.

DMESG says:
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
yenta EnE: chaning testregister 0xC9, 04 -> 04
ath_hal: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn r1821)
ath_rate_sample: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (svn r1821)
ath_pci: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r1821)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:07:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 
36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
wlan_scan_sta: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x54000000, irq=177

IFCONFIG:
ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:46:8B:6E:86
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:46ff:fe8b:6e86/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-13-46-8B-6E-86-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:67624 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:23027
          TX packets:3082 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
          RX bytes:4998588 (4.7 Mb)  TX bytes:141772 (138.4 Kb)
          Interrupt:177 Memory:ffffc20000940000-ffffc20000950000

IWCONFIG:
linux-laptop:~ # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wifi0     no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-96 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:65914  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

vmnet8    no wireless extensions.

vmnet1    no wireless extensions.

vmnet2    no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.


I have also an ETH0 card that is using the same router DHCP (D-Link Wireless 
108 G MIMO). Note that I have installed successfully VMWare which is working 
properly using ETH0. And this eth0 card gets its IPfrom D-Lik router. 
Wireless Router is configured with WEP Shared Key 64bits. Both adapters are 
configured STARTMODE= auto    to avoid priority issues.
When following instructions ESSID  and AP comes to iwconfig  but noacces to 
network. ping says: network unrecheable
When using a fixed IP I could ping it internally when ETH0 is doown or when I 
put ETH0 up. ATH0 IP cannot be pinged from outside.

Thanks a lot for the help 

Helio Nunes