Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid that although my card is now recognised as wlan0, both
> wpa_cli and gui insist on trying to connect to ath0, unless I specify
> -iwlan0 at the terminal.  I don't have (knowingly) specified ath0 in
> any other configuration file ... where else could wpa_supplicant pick
> this from?

On my system I've got ath5k for wifi, too. It uses wpa_supplicant and
my device is wlan0 and all works well enough. I switched 2 machines
from madwifi to ath5k and only had to make 4 changes to my
configuration:

1. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add this line:
blacklist ath_pci

2. In /etc/conf.d/net I have changed this line:
wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi"

to this:
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"

3. In /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules I deleted the old
entry for my wireless card and let it re-create, which came out as:
# PCI device 0x168c:0x001c (ath5k_pci)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:15:af:15:e3:3e", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*",
NAME="wlan0"

4. Rename /etc/init.d/net.ath0 symlink to /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 and
make sure it is in the "default" runlevel.

And finally reboot. Good luck!