Re: Issue to see ath0 after building madwifi on Debian

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:00:20 +0000
"Cayetanot, Sebastien" <[email protected]> wrote:

> By the way, is it normal that lspci do not reply  that it's a
> wireless device and not only "Netwrok Controller: Atheros
> Communication Inc. Device 002a"

It looks like a typo in the lspci source or device database.

> I have used the command "modprob ath_pci" to load the driver (and
> also using the insmod command for ath_hal an ath_pci).
> 
> But I still not see the interface ath0 using the iwconfig or
> "ifconfig -a" tools.

You may have another driver claiming the device, most likely ath9k.  It
needs to be removed by rmmod for ath_pci to claim the device.

Check the kernel log with the dmesg command.  The driver may have
trouble initializing the device.

You may also have an old version of MadWifi without AR9280 support.
Please always specify the version of the software if reporting a
problem with it.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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