On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:56:15PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
- madwifi is broken. Do we still need it? AFAIK, all chipsets should now be supported by ath5k by now. Can a madwifi user please look at this (Aaron, Dan?)
My card doesn't work with ath5k, i've tested module from 2.6.25 and now 2.6.26 from testing. ,----[ lspci ] | Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01) `---- It's a PCMCIA card. Vendor: TP-Link TL-WN610G I cannot see any networks during scanning (iwlist). ,----[ log after insert card ] | Jul 23 00:50:37 tuxlap pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1 | Jul 23 00:50:37 tuxlap ath5k_pci 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) | Jul 23 00:50:37 tuxlap ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 | Jul 23 00:50:37 tuxlap ath5k_pci 0000:06:00.0: registered as 'phy1' | Jul 23 00:50:37 tuxlap phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' | Jul 23 00:50:37 tuxlap ath5k phy1: Atheros AR2414 chip found (MAC: 0x79, PHY: 0x45) `---- ifconfig wlan0 up (works after ~5 tries) iwlist wlan0 scan shows no networks (no problem with madwifi) During iwlist scan log is flooded with: ,----[ /var/log/everything.log ] | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap ath5k phy1: noise floor calibration timeout (2432MHz) | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap ath5k phy1: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel (2432 Mhz) | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap wlan0: failed to set freq to 2432 MHz for scan | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap ath5k phy1: noise floor calibration timeout (2437MHz) | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap ath5k phy1: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel (2437 Mhz) | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap wlan0: failed to set freq to 2437 MHz for scan | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap wlan0: failed to set freq to 2442 MHz for scan | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap wlan0: failed to set freq to 2447 MHz for scan | Jul 23 00:51:54 tuxlap wlan0: failed to set freq to 2452 MHz for scan | Jul 23 00:51:55 tuxlap wlan0: failed to set freq to 2457 MHz for scan | Jul 23 00:51:55 tuxlap wlan0: failed to set freq to 2462 MHz for scan | Jul 23 00:51:55 tuxlap wlan0: failed to restore operational channel after scan | Jul 23 00:51:59 tuxlap __ratelimit: 12 messages suppressed | Jul 23 00:51:59 tuxlap ath5k phy1: noise floor calibration timeout (2412MHz) | Jul 23 00:52:07 tuxlap ath5k phy1: noise floor calibration timeout (2417MHz) | Jul 23 00:52:07 tuxlap wlan0: failed to set freq to 2417 MHz for scan | ... and so on `---- Same log messages if trying wpa_supplicant Providing further packages for madwifi seems difficult with >=2.6.26, or see you any chance? Should i file a bugreport (arch or madwifi or LKML)? Searching a little with "ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel" i saw more users which maybe similar problems, ex. http://madwifi.org/ticket/808 (Little confusing...) and this in our forum could be similar: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52049 Regards Gerhard -- Kernel panic: Could not determine whether bit was one, zero or sqrt(1/PI)... (J.K. in d-u-g)