Re: Dlink DWA-556 under rhel 5.5 not getting IP address

Sorry, I'm a little new to Madwifi and ath9k.  I'm experienced in Linux, but
new to rhel.

I downloaded the latest rhel 5.5 which just released.  I heard it would have
native Atheros support.  After installing it, I saw the wlan0 but it would
never get an IP address.  I didn't see a phy0 in my network config control
panel.
I configured it with the GUI network configurator


When I realized this wasn't working, I downloaded the latest MadWifi to see
if it would work, and didn't see any new adaptors pop up in the network
control panel.

Sorry I don't have the kernel version currently, I can get it for you.  It
is the GA kernel that ships with RHEL 5.5 which just released.

While we are on this topic, if this driver should work via ath9k issue and I
need to disable Madwifi, how would I do this?

Thanks,
Eric



-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 8:41 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] Dlink DWA-556 under rhel 5.5 not getting IP
address

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 23:18 -0700, Eric wrote:

...
> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control'

That's ath9k, not MadWifi.

> wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"levinsong"

And that's ath9k, since MadWifi doesn't support 802.11n.

Please either use MadWifi or write to the list for ath9k.  In any case,
please specify the kernel version.  If you have a problem with MadWifi,
please specify the version of MadWifi.

>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point:
00:22:75:62:3D:B0
>           Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm
>           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:33B8-BBF2-BD

If you are using WEP with open system authentication, you can get
connected with a wrong key.  Please double check the key.

You may want to try WPA, as WEP is officially obsolete and insecure.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin


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