From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GoPK7-0008Uv-U8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:05:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAQJ3pxO023980; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:03:51 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAQJ14uS013247 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:01:04 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so2924287nfb for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:01:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DKWMRxAPmnSKnjst1g7wHoHj71V0mVl9JdIZBjFkCpMIOivyt2AKSILwdXDq/XVLD7XzPXxW6gsxDjYeFrR8/6Ku7nT5stUMmsJhLAhN0rkQgvhs1eCn+RzRxcx0++d5Jx9gAXBhFAweyBBmJPiVevYUCimjB2SyJJcBa2ON/t4= Received: by 10.82.141.4 with SMTP id o4mr1496166bud.1164567663035; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:01:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.18 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:01:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0611261101m61db27a4jb41640842deefb54@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:01:02 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0/ndiswrapper failing after gcc-4 upgrade (and dual Windows boot) Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <60AEA9DD-1B78-458A-9BD9-F3F33918289B@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0611251229l61dc420es30f92c0bebafe316@mail.gmail.com> <200611252048.16847.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0611251342h2a946ed7n6017518019d8057f@mail.gmail.com> <200611252349.20437.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> <5bdc1c8b0611251801g62177cfev980aacfae3ead86a@mail.gmail.com> <60AEA9DD-1B78-458A-9BD9-F3F33918289B@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: a296e704-1e60-45e8-a090-1daeb78ed339 X-Archives-Hash: 9ca177be1173ae6a7efdd5d86aa68c4d On 11/25/06, Stroller wrote: > > On 26 Nov 2006, at 02:01, Mark Knecht wrote: > > ... > > I do have the ath_pci driver and I can modprobe it successfully: > > > > Sector9 ~ # modprobe ath_pci > > Sector9 ~ # lsmod > > Module Size Used by > > > > ath_pci 72800 0 > > ath_rate_sample 10880 1 ath_pci > > > > ath_hal 189264 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample > > Sector9 ~ # > > > > I don't see any errors in dmesg, or even any messages. > > > > Since I cannot get ndiswrapper working how would I go about getting > > ath_pci to work? > > What card do you actually have? IMO NDISwrapper is a last resort for > cards that have no native support & for users who cannot afford a > supported card. I completely agree. > You should certainly be using madwifi or madwifi-ng > (the driver which provides ath_pci, IIRC) if your card supports it. > > What does `lspic -vt` say? I assume you meant lspci: Sector9 ~ # lspci -vt -[0000:00]-+-00.0 nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge +-00.1 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 +-00.2 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 +-00.3 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 +-00.4 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 +-00.5 nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge +-00.6 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 +-00.7 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 +-02.0-[0000:01]-- +-04.0-[0000:02]-- +-05.0 nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge +-09.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge +-0a.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge +-0a.1 nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus +-0a.2 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 +-0b.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller +-0b.1 nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller +-0d.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE +-0e.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller +-0f.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller +-10.0-[0000:03]--+-08.0 Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX | \-0a.0 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC +-10.1 nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio +-14.0 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller +-18.0 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration +-18.1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map +-18.2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller \-18.3 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control Sector9 ~ # > What does `iwconfig` say? > Actually, this is interesting and (so far) unexplained. I did not intentionally ask the system to load ath_pci but it has done that. It appears that ath_pci may have grabbed to hardware and hence stopped ndiswrapper from using the card? No wonder I'm told that wlan0 doesn't exist! Sector9 ~ # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. wifi0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Sector9 ~ # So, then I have two questions: 1) What is the proper way to configure this card using ath0, assuming it actually is supported? 2) If the above data is about my card then why isn't is coming up 802.11g? I get .11g support from ndiswrapper, or did when it worked...) I do have madwifi installed but I'm not intentionally trying to run it, as far as I know: Sector9 ~ # eix -I madwifi * net-wireless/madwifi-ng Available versions: 0.0.1443.20060207 0.0.1531.20060427 0.9.2 Installed: 0.9.2 Homepage: http://www.madwifi.org/ Description: Next Generation driver for Atheros based IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN cards * net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools Available versions: 0.0.1443.20060207 0.0.1531.20060427 ~0.9.1 ~0.9.2_rc1692 0.9.2 Installed: 0.9.2 Homepage: http://www.madwifi.org/ Description: Next Generation tools for configuration of Atheros based IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN cards Found 2 matches. Sector9 ~ # Sector9 ~ # rc-update show alsasound | default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot cupsd | default hostname | boot hotplug | default keymaps | boot local | default nonetwork localmount | boot modules | boot net.lo | boot net.wlan0 | default netmount | default ntpd | default rmnologin | boot sshd | default syslog-ng | default urandom | boot vixie-cron | default xdm | default Sector9 ~ # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 # /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: kernel modules to load when system boots. # # Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels. # # Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system # starts into this file, one per line. Comments begin with # and # are ignored. Read man modules.autoload for additional details. # For example: # 3c59x #forcedeth ndiswrapper agpgart nvidia-agp #tulip Sector9 ~ # Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list