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From: GeekBoy on 20 Apr 2008 22:41 I just put in a Airlink 101 AWLH403 (Atheros Chip) I had laying around after seeing there are good drivers for it. F8 sees it fine and I can configure it, but one problem, I cannot see what access points I can pick up. I live two blocks away from a university that I attend and I am trying to save money by cutting off my cable and using their wireless system on campus. (Yes, I have performed tests on it. 6MB down/4MB up. I don't get that fast UP with cable) I currently have a bidirectional attenna connected to it, but cannot tell what access points I can pick up. Thus I am wondering what I can use to perform a site survey. I tried just activating the card, but without luck since it seems to want to connect to an access point before it activates the card. I also looked at what the packages available and installed them, but they basically do the same thing. They seem to want you to connect to an access point with knowing what you need to connetc to prior to connecting. Thanks GB
From: zappa on 21 Apr 2008 04:16 GeekBoy wrote: > I just put in a Airlink 101 AWLH403 (Atheros Chip) I had laying around > after seeing there are good drivers for it. > > F8 sees it fine and I can configure it, but one problem, I cannot see > what access points I can pick up. > > I live two blocks away from a university that I attend and I am trying > to save money by cutting off my cable and using their wireless system on > campus. (Yes, I have performed tests on it. 6MB down/4MB up. I don't get > that fast UP with cable) > > > I currently have a bidirectional attenna connected to it, but cannot > tell what access points I can pick up. > Thus I am wondering what I can use to perform a site survey. > > I tried just activating the card, but without luck since it seems to > want to connect to an access point before it activates the card. > > I also looked at what the packages available and installed them, but > they basically do the same thing. They seem to want you to connect to an > access point with knowing what you need to connetc to prior to connecting. > > Thanks > > GB > > > /sbin/iwlist ap will give you a list of access points in range.
From: GeekBoy on 21 Apr 2008 12:01 On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:16:37 +1000, zappa wrote: > /sbin/iwlist ap Thanks for that info. Still no good. For some reason it is reporting no access points. More than likely due to the fact that the card is "inactive," but I cannot activate it for an unknown reason
From: zappa on 21 Apr 2008 17:58 GeekBoy wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:16:37 +1000, zappa wrote: > >> /sbin/iwlist ap > > > Thanks for that info. > > Still no good. For some reason it is reporting no access points. More > than likely due to the fact that the card is "inactive," but I cannot > activate it for an unknown reason > > > > > I presume you have the madwifi module installed and running. It was an atheros card? lsmod should include ath_pci.
From: GeekBoy on 21 Apr 2008 20:09
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:58:30 +1000, zappa wrote: > GeekBoy wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:16:37 +1000, zappa wrote: >> >>> /sbin/iwlist ap >> >> >> Thanks for that info. >> >> Still no good. For some reason it is reporting no access points. More >> than likely due to the fact that the card is "inactive," but I cannot >> activate it for an unknown reason >> >> >> >> >> > I presume you have the madwifi module installed and running. It was an > atheros card? lsmod should include ath_pci. No. madwifi is not installed yet for the reason I was digging for on a web site and wanted to confer first with others..seems like a crappy way to get it running. I havew to check lsmod...never messed with it. "Fixing Fedora 8 wireless problem http://coyotesg.blogspot.com/ Fedora 8's wireless is really disappointing. So far, bugs findings include 1. wpa_supplicant is buggy & cannot connect. 2. default ath_5k driver conflicts with madwifi driver from livna 3. network manager is also buggy. I have a DLink G520 using the atheros chipset. Here is how I managed to get it working. Note: This method will give you a fixed ip 192.168.0.17(or dhcp ip if you like) & the startup files will connect you to your preferred wireless network without any manual intervention by users like using network manager, which does not work anyway. 1. Blacklist ath_5k in /etc/modprobe.conf & /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. 2. Installed kmod-madwifi from livna 3. disabled network manager as it will interfere with the configuration below. 4. updated wpa_supplicant Tricky steps: 5. Previous version of Fedora before 8, atheros chipset is recognized as ath0. In Fedora 8, this does not work. Atheros chispet is recognized as wlan0. So, I have changed all previous reference to ath0 to wlan0. 6. I removed the ath_5k driver from kernel as some suggested. Not sure if this is absolutely necessary though. 7. At /etc/rc5.d, there is this file SXXwpa_supplicant. My case, XX=12. Change it to a bigger no. I changed it to 98. Reason being, wpa_supplicant was started before other services & so it does not work. S98wpa_supplicant makes wpa_supplicant starts after most other services. 8. 4 files to be modified/created /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 /etc/dhclient-wlan0.conf /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf My configuration files are as follow:" From : http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=172718 |