Re: [Madwifi-users] AR2425 on Laptop HP dv5 with HAL 0.10.5 / Madwifi current.

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 20:07 -0600, Andres Tello wrote:
> HI. 
> 
> I'm running OpenSuse 11.1:
> 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44 +0100 i686 athlon i386
> GNU/Linux
> 
> I used to had working my wireless, I made a kernel update, and it didn't
> work anymore, the same as alsa and ati 3d drivers.
> 
> I recompiled alsa and ati, and everything was ok, but I "lost" what I
> have build and done to have the wireless working.

Linux 2.6.27 should have ath5k in a pretty decent condition.

>  So, after
> re-reading... I got to the combination of:
> 
> HAL 0.10.5
> MadWifi current.

I don't know what it is.  Perhaps you mean a recent snapshot of the
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 branch.

> I can see the wifi0 dev, and create sta devices with wlanconfig, I Do
> can scan for networks, but I'm unable to associate to any AP, I have a
> very high Rx invalid nwid.

It's not necessarily a problem.  It may be due to beacons of the APs
your card it not associated with.

> athstats outputs this:
> 
> 1893 tx management frames
> 1890 tx frames with no ack marked
> 9222 rx failed due to bad CRC
> 126 PHY errors
>     126 CCK restart
> 1057 switched default/rx antenna
> Antenna profile:
> [1] tx        2 rx   178012
> [2] tx       24 rx    79609

It would be more useful to look at the kernel messages as shown by the
dmesg command.  Also, iwconfig shows if the station is associated, what
mode it is in and other more relevant information.

> What do I need to do to correct the issue?

Try this: https://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

>  Is there another module I
> need to update that I'm missing? 

I don't know what you mean here.  MadWifi is explicit about its
requirements.  If you mean that OpenSUSE fails to track some
dependencies, I cannot comment on that.  There is no evidence to even
speculate about it.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin