Re: Issue to see ath0 after building madwifi on Debian

The release I got, is the one delivered by debian 5 through apt-get. 

I get the source code from madwifi website also but I do not succeed to compile due to an issues related to "implicit declaration of function'__skb_append' in ieee80211_power.c

I'm need to stay in debian 5 and use madwifi driver. I know that madwifi is no more supported starting debian 6 and we have to replace it by ath5k/ath9k


Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:36 PM
To: Cayetanot, Sebastien
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] 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.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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