Atheros Wireless Issues 11.1

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Hi,

I am having problems with my wireless on 11.1. I followed " My wireless doesn’t work - a primer on what I should do next" and this is what I got.

Any help would be appreciated…

/sbin/lspci

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

dmesg | less

ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2424 chip found (MAC: 0xa2, PHY: 0x61)

No sign of missing firmware.

/usr/sbin/iwconfig

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=23 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

/usr/sbin/iwlist scan

lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

wlan0 No scan results

I looked further into dmesg and found the following…

eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ath5k phy0: unsupported channel mode: 0
ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel (5180 Mhz)
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5180 MHz for scan
ath5k phy0: unsupported channel mode: 0
ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel (5200 Mhz)
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5200 MHz for scan
ath5k phy0: unsupported channel mode: 0
ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel (5220 Mhz)
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5220 MHz for scan
ath5k phy0: unsupported channel mode: 0
ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel (5240 Mhz)
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5240 MHz for scan
ath5k phy0: unsupported channel mode: 0
ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel (5245 Mhz)
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5245 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5250 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5255 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5260 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5265 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5270 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5275 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5280 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5285 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5290 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5295 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5300 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5305 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5310 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5315 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5320 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5745 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5750 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5755 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5760 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5765 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5770 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5775 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5780 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5785 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5790 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5795 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5800 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5805 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5810 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5815 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5820 MHz for scan
wlan0: failed to set freq to 5825 MHz for scan
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=488 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=468
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=260 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=240
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=488 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=468
CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain.
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 0-1 level CPU
groups: 0 1
domain 1: span 0-1 level NODE
groups: 0-1
CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 0-1 level CPU
groups: 1 0
domain 1: span 0-1 level NODE
groups: 0-1
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=488 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=468
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=452 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=432
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=414 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=394
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=452 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=432
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
__ratelimit: 64 callbacks suppressed

Thanks

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little-green-lizard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with my wireless on 11.1. I followed " My wireless
> doesn’t work - a primer on what I should do next" and this is what I
> got.
>
> Any help would be appreciated…
>
> wlan0: failed to set freq to 5815 MHz for scan
> wlan0: failed to set freq to 5820 MHz for scan
> wlan0: failed to set freq to 5825 MHz for scan

Are you expecting 802.11a?

Larry

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My wireless router is 802.11g & 802.11b

4

little-green-lizard wrote:
>
> My wireless router is 802.11g & 802.11b

Those are both in the 2.4 GHz range - why is your system trying to set channels
at 5 GHz?

Larry

5

:\ I have no idea. The only thing I have done is try to set the connection up in Network Manager… It has ref to a in the name AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter but also b + g.

6

May be I will just do back to madwifi at least it worked (besides the 5 or so dropouts every hour:( ).

7

Have you look at this article Atheros madwifi - openSUSE?

Extremely useful.
I’ve got the same Atheros AR5007 pci card.
And it helped me a lot.

Another one advice - do not use KNetworkManager.
Use KInternet instead.

With KNetworkManager I can see disconnections every few minutes.

KInternet works seamlessly.

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Thanks Bolick

It seems I cant use madwifi atm for 11.1 i cant find madwifi-kmp-default everything on the wikis point to something that dose not exist. I found one at Software.openSUSE.org but it dose not match my kernel number. :cry:
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