wireless problem: can't find access point

[charshep]

I'm new to wireless networking and some of the other posts have helped. I'm at the point where I can get my Gigabyte wireless card to show up with iwconfig with what I think are the correct parameters and I see it listed as "up" in ifconfig. However, "iwlist ath0 scanning" doesn't show any access points (the machine is inches from the router, a Gigabyte router). Also, "pump -i ath0" fails. Using a wired connection and eth0 on the same card/router pair works just fine. Any ideas?

[patelbhavesh]

I'm new to wireless networking and some of the other posts have helped. I'm at the point where I can get my Gigabyte wireless card to show up with iwconfig with what I think are the correct parameters and I see it listed as "up" in ifconfig. However, "iwlist ath0 scanning" doesn't show any access points (the machine is inches from the router, a Gigabyte router). Also, "pump -i ath0" fails. Using a wired connection and eth0 on the same card/router pair works just fine. Any ideas?

Check out this thread and see if your problems are solved.
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14206
Also make sure that you have set the essid,channel etc those parameters correctly.


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[charshep]

yep, thats the thread that got me as far as ive gotten so far. but, i can only get as far as seeing my interface in ifconfig. still cant connect to the router, i.e., iwlist ath0 scanning doesn't work and of course neither does pump -i aht0.

[level]

Can you provide some more information such as the results from ifconfig, iwconfig, and lsmod (parts pertaining to wireless).

[ghaze]

The built-in mini-pci card on my laptop uses the ath_pci module.
iwlist ath0 scanning works if you first bring up the interface.
ifconfig ath0 up
iwlist ath0 scanning

To connect,I use the following command
iwconfig ath0 essid "youressid" mode Managed channel 6 key xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
pump -i ath0

I use wep,btw.
The above also works on a debian desktop with a DWL-G520 (pci)

I've noticed that if I try "modprobe -r ath_pci" with knoppix,it will lockup.
The madwifi faq says to try a newer version if this happens to you.
On a mandrake system with current cvs,this doesn't happen.
On a debian system with current cvs this doesn't happen.
Possibly,your card needs newer drivers.
I've had issues in the past with a prism54 pccard that ended up being
pcmcia related,not wireless related.It was almost the same situation.
iwconfig showed my card associating with the ap,but I was unable to get an ip.I played with some cheatcodes and got it to work.
I assume your card is a pcmcia card since the only Gigabyte cards I could
find using the atheros chipset are.
What kind of laptop are you using?
Does dmesg show any irq conflicts?

[charshep]

Thanks for the help. I'm new to wireless and I'm new to notebooks so I appreciate it. I'm using a PowerPro 5:14 from PowerNotebooks with a Gigabyte card and wireless router. dmesg doesn't show anything obvious and what follows is the output from my commands:

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# iwconfig ath0 essid GIGABYTE channel 6 mode Managed
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"GIGABYTE"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:1Mb/s Tx-Power:off Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.iw

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:EA:91:34:F6
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fe91:34f6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2288 (2.2 KiB)
Interrupt:22 Memory:e0156000-e0166000
...


root@ttyp0[knoppix]# iwlist scanning
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

ath0 No scan results
sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.



I'm confident I have at least the basic parameters set right in the router config (no WEP for example, correct channel and ESSID, etc). I've tried with both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel with no luck. What were your PCMCA issues? Would it help if I posted the output from dmesg?

Thanks again

[ghaze]

ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"GIGABYTE"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:1Mb/s Tx-Power:off Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


Notice that your Link Quality=0/94
This means you aren't connected.You'd get the same results if you set your
essid to any random string.



iwconfig ath0 essid GIGABYTE channel 6 mode Managed


You should have quotes around your essid.i.e.

iwconfig ath0 essid "GIGABYTE" channel 6 mode Managed

I had issues with irq's not be alotted properly.This was on with a Compaq
laptop,though.
try
dmesg | grep "wants irq"
try "cat /proc/interrupts"
put your card in the slot
"cat /proc/interrupts"
With mine,yenta and ath0 end up with different irq's.
If they are on the same irq,things could still work,though.
What you want to look for is ath0 being on the same irq as some other
module.Irq sharing works,sometimes.It just depends on how well knoppix
handles your hardware.Do you have to use any cheatcodes to get knoppix
to boot?Does your laptop have acpi?If acpi works,you should have a /proc/acpi
directory.acpi helps knoppix setup your irq's on boxes that support it.
Boot with knoppix26 and watch the boot messages.Look for acpi or apm.

As far as "iwlist ath0 scanning" goes:
After rebooting or resetting the card card,in this order,run
"ifconfig ath0 up"
"iwlist ath0 scanning"

[charshep]

Thanks again for your help. Yep, both acpi and acp are present. I've tried this under both 2.4 and 2.6, usually under 2.6 as this is a brand new machine and I haven't had any other problems with 2.6. I don't need any cheat codes either. I also tried putting the ESSID in quotes but no good. :( I'm not seeing any irq conflicts either if I'm reading this right:

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# dmesg | grep "wants"
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 986411 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 2185 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 1389 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 10451 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 14 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 2027 IO-APIC-edge ide1
16: 1 IO-APIC-level yenta, uhci_hcd
17: 20 IO-APIC-level Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem, Intel ICH4
18: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd
19: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd
20: 2 IO-APIC-level ohci1394
21: 1544 IO-APIC-level eth0
22: 56 IO-APIC-level ath0
NMI: 0
LOC: 317998
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#


Here's the output from dmesg. There are a few errors but I didn't think they were relevant:

my device 80x25
Memory: 497904k/507840k available (1823k kernel code, 9176k reserved, 930k data, 264k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3170.30 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000040
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping 06
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 182.79 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Total of 1 processors activated (3170.30 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 1-0, 1-16, 1-17, 1-18, 1-19, 1-20, 1-21, 1-22, 1-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1598.0418 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.0901 MHz.
Brought up 1 CPUs
CPU0: online
domain 0: span 00000001
groups: 00000001
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 771k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xe97e4, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 28)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00ff020
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xeb000:0x34ce, dseg 0xeb000
PNPBIOS fault.. attempting recovery.
PnPBIOS: Warning! Your PnP BIOS caused a fatal error. Attempting to continue
PnPBIOS: You may need to reboot with the "nobiospnp" option to operate stably
PnPBIOS: Check with your vendor for an updated BIOS
PnPBIOS: dev_node_info: unexpected status 0x28
PnPBIOS: Unable to get node info. Aborting.
SCSI subsystem initialized
00:00:02[A] -> 1-16 -> IRQ 16 level low
00:00:1d[B] -> 1-19 -> IRQ 19 level low
00:00:1d[C] -> 1-18 -> IRQ 18 level low
00:00:1d[D] -> 1-23 -> IRQ 23 level low
00:00:1f[B] -> 1-17 -> IRQ 17 level low
00:01:00[A] -> 1-20 -> IRQ 20 level low
00:01:01[A] -> 1-21 -> IRQ 21 level low
00:01:02[A] -> 1-22 -> IRQ 22 level low
number of MP IRQ sources: 15.
number of IO-APIC #1 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #1......
.... register #00: 01000000
....... : physical APIC id: 01
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 00178020
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0020
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... register #03: 00000001
....... : Boot DT : 1
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9
16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E1
17 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ16 -> 0:16
IRQ17 -> 0:17
IRQ18 -> 0:18
IRQ19 -> 0:19
IRQ20 -> 0:20
IRQ21 -> 0:21
IRQ22 -> 0:22
IRQ23 -> 0:23
.................................... done.
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xb0000000, mapped to 0xdf80d000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
vesafb: protected mode interface info at 00ff:44f0
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Simple Boot Flag at 0x37 set to 0x1
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1099873715.4294966716:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Using anticipatory io scheduler
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1100-0x1107, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1108-0x110f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: HTS726060M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-242, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7877KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
hda:
libata version 1.02 loaded.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio4
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: QSI Model: CDRW/DVD SBW-242 Rev: UX08
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_deregister
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_reset_deregister
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_config
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_device_driver_deregister
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_free_msg_frame
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_print_ioc_summary
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_GetIocState
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_put_msg_frame
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_register
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_add_sge
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_event_deregister
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_adapter_find_next
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_read_ioc_pg_3
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_event_register
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_send_handshake_request
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_device_driver_register
mptscsih: Unknown symbol DmpService
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_ASCQ_TableSz
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_v_ASCQ_TablePtr
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_get_msg_frame
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_register
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_add_sge
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_event_deregister
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_adapter_find_next
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_read_ioc_pg_3
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_event_register
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_send_handshake_request
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_device_driver_register
mptscsih: Unknown symbol DmpService
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_ASCQ_TableSz
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_v_ASCQ_TablePtr
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_get_msg_frame
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_ScsiOpcodesPtr
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_reset_register
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_HardResetHandler
mptscsih: Unknown symbol mpt_adapter_find_first
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
seagate: ST0x/TMC-8xx not detected.
DC390: 0 adapters found
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
uhci_hcd: version magic '2.6.6 SMP preempt 386 gcc-2.95' should be '2.6.7 SMP preempt 386 gcc-3.3'
ohci_hcd: version magic '2.6.6 SMP preempt 386 gcc-2.95' should be '2.6.7 SMP preempt 386 gcc-3.3'
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[20] MMIO=[e0010800-e0010fff] Max Packet=[2048]
sbp2: Unknown parameter `sbp2_serialize_io'
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00023f485c400058]
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 30369 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65552 bytes.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Freeing unused kernel memory: 264k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (off-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:01:04.0 [14c0:0012]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states)
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:01:04.0, mfunc 0x00111c12, devctl 0x46
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00c0, PCI irq 16
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x230-0x237 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 00001200
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 00001600
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 00001700
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 14 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 424M
agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xb0000000
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xf20d)
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdfc9b000, 00:02:3f:08:2f:bc, IRQ 21
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.6.11
wlan: 0.7.3.1 BETA
ath_pci: 0.8.5.2 BETA
ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 4.6
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:0f:ea:91:34:f6
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xe0000000, irq=22
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 04:02:19 Jul 28 2004
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xe200 and 0xe100, MEM 0xf0080400 and 0xf0080600, IRQ 17
i810: Intel ICH4 mmio at 0xdfd84400 and 0xdfd86600
i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 0
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG64 (Unknown)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
eth0: link down
NET: Registered protocol family 17
apm: BIOS not found.
mtrr: 0xb0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xb0000000,0x200000
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
mtrr: 0xb0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xb0000000,0x200000
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 1: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (#2)
mtrr: base(0xb0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x180000) boundary
mtrr: 0xb0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xb0000000,0x200000
unable to register OSS mixer device 0:0
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c035fcc0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ath0: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

[ghaze]

PnPBIOS: You may need to reboot with the "nobiospnp" option to operate stably

First time I've seen this one.Did you try booting with this option?
Hit F2 at boot screen
Type "knoppix26 nobiospnp"
Another one to try would be "knoppix26 noscsi"
I know that probing for scsi cards breaks some wired nics.I had to use "noscsi"
on my compaq or my natsemi nic wouldn't work.
Something else.Do you bring down eth0 before trying to bring up ath0?
You can have 2 ip's,but why confuse things.
ifconfig eth0 down
iwconfig ath0 essid "GIGABYTE" channel 6 mode Managed
Wait a couple of seconds
pump -i ath0
If it still doesn't work
pump -i eth0 brings you back up.
Try the 2 boot codes,alone and together
knoppix26 noscsi
knoppix26 nobiospnp
knoppix26 noscsi nobiospnp
I have a feeling it's a boot code thing.From your iwconfig output I feel
your card's not transmitting.My prism54 card would transmit and associate
alright,but then it wouldn't get the dhcp reply when it asked for an ip.
You might want to play with some other boot codes,too.Be systematic
about it so you narrow it down.
Have you tried wlcardconfig?If you use this,you know you are calling
iwconfig properly.
ifconfig eth0 down
wlcardconfig
click through the options
pump -i ath0
I'd be getting frustrated if I was you,but don't give up.Linux,for me,is all
about learning.I cussed that f!@#$% Compaq like you wouldn't believe
but it forced me to learn alot.I've had it a couple of years and I've run
many distros on it,custom kernels and all.Your box is alot more compatable.
I finally bought a toshiba.When I wanted to get the touchpad to have
tapclick and scrolling,it was trivial to patch some drivers and rebuild the kernel.
You might also want to try Mandrake Move and see if it works under Mandrake.
I assume you have this card up and working under windows?
Nice box,BTW

[charshep]

Thanks, I understand what you're saying about Linux, well put. I've actually been using Gentoo for a few years and love it. Even though it's a pain to get set up, it's worth it once it gets going.

Back to my wireless problem, I actually got my problem solved. Get this, you remember I said I was new to notebooks and wireless? Well, the switch on the side of the machine that I thought disabled the sound actually disables the wireless card. I flipped that and now it works beautifully. I have a masters in computer science and I had to call tech support to get that explained to me. :/ Ah well. Thanks again for all your help and words of encouragement!