Comment 29 for bug 122703

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Neil J. Patel (njpatel) wrote : Re: Upgrade Atheros drivers to snapshot/trunk to support AR5008

Hardy 2.6.24-12 NM-0.6.6 Madwifi svn r3367

Same problem with the madwifi drivers, they can see the networks, but cannot connect to any of them (they all have WEP or WPA enabled). I haven't been able to test with a network without security.

njp@Neils-MBP:~$ sudo iwconfig
wifi0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
          Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:2920 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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njp@Neils-MBP:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR5418 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications, Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
       logical name: wifi0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:1b:63:cb:69:99
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci latency=0 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: Marvell Yukon 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 13
       serial: 00:1b:63:95:df:f8
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.20 duplex=full firmware=N/A latency=0 link=yes module=sky2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s