madwifi & networkmanager

user · July 19, 2008, 2:09pm

hi,
i’m on opensuse 11.0 (system updated), using KDE4 (obs kde4:factory build). When using networkmanager to manage my connections in knetworkmanager i see no available wifi networks. Using console ifup, iwlist, … i can connect to any network (wep, wpa works) but after some time (5-15 min) my connections is dropped (i think it’s due txpower value - automaticaly is falling to 8dbm).

some info:
lspci -v
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter (AR5BXB6)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at edf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci

dmesg | grep ath
ath_hal: module license ‘Proprietary’ taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath_pci: 0.9.4
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)

cat /var/log/NetworkManager | grep ath
Jul 16 17:41:15 jazz NetworkManager: <info> ath0: Device is fully-supported using driver ‘ath_pci’.
Jul 16 17:41:15 jazz NetworkManager: <info> ath0: driver does not support SSID scans (scan_capa 0x00).
Jul 16 17:41:15 jazz NetworkManager: <info> Found new wireless (802.11) device ‘ath0’.
Jul 16 17:41:15 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_19_7e_27_c8_07
Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): device state change: 1 → 2
Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): bringing up device.
Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): preparing device.
Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): deactivating device.
Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): device state change: 2 → 3
Jul 16 17:44:58 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): now unmanaged
Jul 16 17:44:58 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): device state change: 3 → 1
Jul 16 17:44:58 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): cleaning up…
Jul 16 17:44:58 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): taking down device.[/size]

user · July 19, 2008, 5:59pm

flovv wrote:
> hi,
> i’m on opensuse 11.0 (system updated), using KDE4 (obs kde4:factory
> build). When using networkmanager to manage my connections in
> knetworkmanager i see no available wifi networks. Using console ifup,
> iwlist, … i can connect to any network (wep, wpa works) but after
> some time (5-15 min) my connections is dropped (i think it’s due
> txpower value - automaticaly is falling to 8dbm).
>
> some info:
> lspci -v
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212
> 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
> Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express
> Adapter (AR5BXB6)
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> Memory at edf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
> Queue=0/0 Enable-
> Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
> Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
> Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
> Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
> Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci
>
> dmesg | grep ath
> ath_hal: module license ‘Proprietary’ taints kernel.
> ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
> RF5413)
> ath_pci: 0.9.4
> ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
>
> cat /var/log/NetworkManager | grep ath
> Jul 16 17:41:15 jazz NetworkManager: <info> ath0: Device is
> fully-supported using driver ‘ath_pci’.
> Jul 16 17:41:15 jazz NetworkManager: <info> ath0: driver does not
> support SSID scans (scan_capa 0x00).
> Jul 16 17:41:15 jazz NetworkManager: <info> Found new wireless
> (802.11) device ‘ath0’.
> Jul 16 17:41:15 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): exported as
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_19_7e_27_c8_07
> Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): device state
> change: 1 → 2
> Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): bringing up
> device.
> Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): preparing device.
> Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): deactivating
> device.
> Jul 16 17:41:19 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): device state
> change: 2 → 3
> Jul 16 17:44:58 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): now unmanaged
> Jul 16 17:44:58 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): device state
> change: 3 → 1
> Jul 16 17:44:58 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): cleaning up…
> Jul 16 17:44:58 jazz NetworkManager: <info> (ath0): taking down
> device.
>
>
Moving from Network to Wireless forum.
opensuse.org.help.network-internet.wireless
[/size]