Can`t get wireless card w/ AR2413 chipset working

**seubill** · January 1st, 2009

This should be correct:

Code:

bill@J325P81:~$ lspci -nn | grep -i atheros
05:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC [168c:001a] (rev 01)
bill@J325P81:~$ sudo modprobe -r ath_pci ath5k
bill@J325P81:~$ sudo modprobe ath_pci
bill@J325P81:~$ dmesg | grep -e ath -e wlan
[   16.568540] ath5k_pci 0000:05:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[   16.568584] ath5k_pci 0000:05:05.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   17.156703] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)
[   31.904939] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   65.806879] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1a:2b:69:06:3f
[   65.812526] wlan0: authenticated
[   65.812543] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1a:2b:69:06:3f
[   65.814533] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1a:2b:69:06:3f (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2)
[   65.814546] wlan0: associated
[   65.814982] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[   76.040511] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 2075.129329] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 2075.132305] ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[ 2075.152635] wlan: 0.9.4
[ 2075.162602] ath_pci: 0.9.4
[ 2534.852585] ath_pci: driver unloaded
[ 2534.860032] wlan: driver unloaded
[ 2534.862164] ath_hal: driver unloaded
[ 2534.929308] ath5k_pci 0000:05:05.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 2555.367274] ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[ 2555.386192] wlan: 0.9.4
[ 2555.395996] ath_pci: 0.9.4
[ 2555.396604] ath_pci 0000:05:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 2555.999875] ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
[ 2570.496010] ath0: no IPv6 routers present
bill@J325P81:~$

**seubill** · January 1st, 2009

Hello...What happened to the help?

**seubill** · January 1st, 2009

Following are the results of:

ping -c 5 google.com
iwconfig
ifconfig

bill@J325P81:~$ ping -c 5 google.com
PING google.com (209.85.171.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cg-in-f100.google.com (209.85.171.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=134 ms
64 bytes from cg-in-f100.google.com (209.85.171.100): icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=135 ms
64 bytes from cg-in-f100.google.com (209.85.171.100): icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=132 ms
64 bytes from cg-in-f100.google.com (209.85.171.100): icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=136 ms
64 bytes from cg-in-f100.google.com (209.85.171.100): icmp_seq=5 ttl=237 time=129 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4015ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 129.762/133.749/136.930/2.501 ms
bill@J325P81:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Broadband1"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1A:2B:69:06:3F
Bit Rate=12 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr

ff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management

ff
Link Quality=29/100 Signal level:-74 dBm Noise level=-93 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

bill@J325P81:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3f:77:a3:89
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1100 (1.1 KB) TX bytes:1100 (1.1 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:e9:fb:4f:83
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:e9ff:fefb:4f83/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6385 (6.3 KB) TX bytes:7190 (7.1 KB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-15-E9-FB-4F-83-66-38-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

bill@J325P81:~$

**pytheas22** · January 1st, 2009

It looks like your card came up under the ath_pci module, and you were able to ping Google without a problem. Could you access web pages? If so, we can make the changes permanent.

Sorry for the delay; I'll respond again as soon as I can but at this point that may not be till tomorrow.

**seubill** · January 1st, 2009

No sir, can not access web pages. If I hover the mouse pointer over the wireless strength icon/indicator at the top edge of the desktop, it often shows 21% or so.

System>Administration>Hardware Drivers indicates "Support for 5xxx series of Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards" The green radio button next to it is on indicating "This driver is activated and currently in use"

BTW, I never have run the commands in the post (number 2) about using the madwifi driver, as I was unsure of the text being correct with regard to ath9 or ath5, and didn`t want to mess up the system any more than presently is.

Understand it is getting late now and I will check back in tommorrow

Happy New Year 2009 to all!

**pytheas22** · January 1st, 2009

No sir, can not access web pages

Sorry, I thought you could because in post #13 you can clearly ping google.com without any packet loss. What happens if you type:

Code:

wget google.com

It could be that your problem is Firefox-specific; the result of the command above will help rule that out (wget is basically a web browser, for our purposes).

**seubill** · January 1st, 2009

Interesting notion there about Firefox specific problem, Internet Explorer works very well. Same machine, so I guess that rules out any hardware/location concern. Anyway, here is the output of wget google.com:

Code:

bill@J325P81:~$ wget google.com
--2008-12-31 23:56:35--  http://google.com/
Resolving google.com... 209.85.171.100, 72.14.205.100, 74.125.45.100
Connecting to google.com|209.85.171.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.google.com/ [following]
--2008-12-31 23:57:00--  http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com... 72.14.205.147, 72.14.205.99, 72.14.205.103, ...
Connecting to www.google.com|72.14.205.147|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'

    [ <=>                                   ] 5,953       33.4K/s   in 0.2s    

2008-12-31 23:57:01 (33.4 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [5953]

It took forever to connect, still no webpages.

**pytheas22** · January 1st, 2009

hmmm, it looks like wget works without a problem, so that makes me lean more towards blaming Firefox. If you type this command:

Code:

sudo apt-get install konqueror

it will download and install a different browser called Konqueror, which you'll be able to find under the Applications>Internet menu. Does Konqueror work better?

Also, to get a better idea of exactly how long it's taking to wget Google, please post the output of:

Code:

time wget google.com

Internet Explorer works very well

Do you mean that it works well under Windows on this computer, or did you install IE in Ubuntu through wine?

**seubill** · January 1st, 2009

I meant that IE works well in Windows on the same computer; it`s a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu setup. Will run the command to download and install Konquer in a short...

Here is the output of time wget google.com:

Code:

bill@J325P81:~$ time wget google.com
--2009-01-01 00:35:49--  http://google.com/
Resolving google.com... 74.125.45.100, 209.85.171.100, 72.14.205.100
Connecting to google.com|74.125.45.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.google.com/ [following]
--2009-01-01 00:35:49--  http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com... 72.14.205.103, 72.14.205.104, 72.14.205.147, ...
Connecting to www.google.com|72.14.205.103|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html.1'

    [ <=>                                   ] 5,953       35.2K/s   in 0.2s    

2009-01-01 00:35:49 (35.2 KB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [5953]


real	0m0.881s
user	0m0.004s
sys	0m0.008s

**seubill** · January 1st, 2009

Trying now to download Konqueror, but is not looking good, 0% after several minutes.

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