[ltp] Broken Wireless?

[Michael Gaber]

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if you don't already have a ath0 you'll have to run

wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta

to create you a ath0. then that is your wlan-card which should sow 
wireless networks

Marco Ghirlanda schrieb:
> Hello, I have a T42p giving me great satisfactions for two years now.
> This morning I was in an office trying to connect to wireless qand
> noticed it didn't work.
> I never use wireless, so i don't know how long this is going on.
> I had some BSOD (ar5211.sys) on Win XP at the end of last year but I
> thought it was due to the poor Redmond thing (I don't dare calling it OS).
> 
> Here is the relevant section of lspci -vv
> 
> 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
> 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Unknown device 17ab:8331
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
> 
> And of dmesg:
> 
> wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
> 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
> wifi0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5 GHz radio 1.7 2 GHz radio 2.3
> wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
> wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
> wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xc0210000, irq=11
> 
> So it seems to me that everything is going fine. But network monitor
> doesn't show any wireless networks.
> 
> How can I debug this thing? Using a pcmcia or usb wificard everything
> works flawlessly,
> 
> Thanks, Marco Ghirlanda

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