Wireless not working

English Network/Internet
1

I did all the steps in the sticky’s, but nothing works. So here are some outputs:

iwconfig:

IEE 802.11bg ESSID:**
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 Ghz Access Point: Not-Associated
…

ifconfig:

wlan0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7D:26:B0:25
but no line with inet addr

iwlist scan:

wlan0 No scan results

dmesg | grep -i firmware gives no output

dmesg | grep -i wlan0 gives few times this line:

ADDRCON(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

In hardware information the device shows up correctly. There is deffinatly a signal here, since I’m using another wireless connection right next to the failing one to write this.

I really could use some help.

2

some extra info from lspci -v

06:00:00 Ethernet Controller Communiations Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Sybsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Device 0423
Flags: bus master. fast devsel. latency 0. IRQ 18
…
…
Kernel driver in use: ath5k_pci
Kernel modules: yenta_socket

3

You need to blacklist ath5k, and install MadWiFi. Please find my 3-page post about “atheros”.

4

Got it working now. Did some major googling on the network card, and found the solution

5

Well, it is always good to post your solution here.

6

as you said, I installed madwifi and then just added blacklist ath5k to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist