[Madwifi-users] madwifi-hal: no scan results

[Bogdan B. <fro...@gm...>]

Hello everybody,

I have an esprimo mobile v6505 fujitsu-siemens laptop with an atheros
wireless card, ar5006 or perhaps ar7007eg, and I have been trying for
over two months to get it to work in my gentoo linux... I tried the
madwifi-hal snapshots regularly, tried the ath5k kernel driver, tried
various module parameters, read everry forum thread and documentation
I could find, but it just won't work.

dmesg output is:


ath_pci 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133,
RF2425, RF2417) ath_pci 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low)
-> IRQ 18 ath_pci 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
MadWifi: ath_attach: Switching rfkill capability off.
wifi0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC 14.2, PHY SChip 7.0, Radio 10.2)
ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros 5424/2424: mem=0xf2200000, irq=18

I'm using linux-2.6.28.

I can do 'ifconfig ath0 up' and it shows up in iwconfig, but when I
scan for an AP it always fails with "ath0      No scan results".

The wireless led on my laptop is always on (I tried hitting the fn+f1
combination when booting and in linux, nothing happens, the led stays
on).

So I turn to you guys as a last resort, everything I tried failed.

Thanks,
Bogdan