Re: atheros ar242x problem in cq50-215nr

["Jason M. Schindler" <jschindler@bucket440.com>]

If I'm reading this right, you still need to set your wlan0 to the proper
ESSID using iwconfig.  Something like:

iwconfig wlan0 essid 'ourwirelessnetwork'

You will also need wpa_supplicant running to deal with the WPA encryption.

If I were you, I would spend my energy trying to figure out why the
network manager isn't picking up your network.  From the output below, it
looks like your card is capable of scanning for networks, so connecting to
one *shouldn't* be a big deal.

Try to run a tail -f /var/log/syslog while you are trying to set things up
with the network manager, or run the network manager application from a
console to see if it outputs anything useful.

Hope this helps.

-Jason

> Hi all,
> I got a new laptop it has been a pain in the @#$ I had to load f9 then
> upgrade to f10 x86_64 because of a cpuspeed error line 112 now
> everything is working except wireless it was until I rebooted after
> update. It will not show up in NM.
>
> lspci
> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
> Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
>
> [craig@localhost ~]$ iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
> Tx-Power=27 dBm
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> [craig@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1F:16:458:24
> inet addr:192.168.1.132 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::21f:16ff:fe45:d824/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:463034 (452.1 KiB) TX bytes:178489 (174.3 KiB)
> Interrupt:21
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:800 (800.0 b) TX bytes:800 (800.0 b)
>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:4D6B:40
> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> 00-23-4D-D6-DB-40-20-31-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> [craig@localhost ~]$ lsmod |grep ath
> dm_multipath 23704 0
> ath5k 129808 0
> mac80211 213872 1 ath5k
> cfg80211 32400 2 ath5k,mac80211
>
> [root@localhost craig]# iwlist wlan0 scan
> wlan0 Scan completed :
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:16:01:926:BA
> ESSID:"ourwirelessnetwork"
> Mode:Master
> Channel:6
> Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
> Quality=103/100 Signal level:-33 dBm Noise level=-99 dBm
> Encryption key:on
> IE: WPA Version 1
> Group Cipher : CCMP
> Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
> Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
> IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
> Group Cipher : CCMP
> Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
> Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
> 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
> 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
> Extra:tsf=000000057153bd2e
> Extra: Last beacon: 619ms ago
>
> [craig@localhost ~]$ ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:4D6B:40
> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> when iwlist wlan0 scan brings up my network I tried ifup wlan0 failed
> Can someone please help me out with the final piece of the puzzle.
> Thank you
>
> --
> Craig Ziegel
> 773-418-8713
> mwtransport@wisperhome.com
>
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