[SOLVED] No wireless AR2413 Atheros

[fewjr]

I am having trouble getting wireless up with hardy heron lshw -C network gives me:

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR2413 802.11bg NIC
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0
logical name: wifi0
version: 01
serial: 00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: nVidia Corporation
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
logical name: eth0
version: a2
serial: 00:1f:d0:5b:98:d4
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 ip=192.168.0.104 latency=0 maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes

The AR2413 is my dlink WDA-1320 pci card.I have tried to follow kevdog's manual connect guide and this is what I get:

goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo ifconfig ath0 down
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo dhclient -r ath0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 134519072
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/ath0/00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
Sending on LPF/ath0/00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
Sending on Socket/fallback
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo ifconfig ath0 up
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "tubescreamer"
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
iwconfig: unknown command "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 key shared
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "shared".
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 restricted
iwconfig: unknown command "restricted"
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 mode Managed
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo dhclient ath0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 134519072
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/ath0/00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
Sending on LPF/ath0/00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$

I'm not sure why its not taking my 128bit HEX key. I have replaced the 26 digits with x for this post. The actual key was used to recieve this output. It is a combination of numbers and letters. What am I doing wrong there? My router is setup as Shared, but it says its an unknown command as well as Restricted. The guide doesn't talk alot about that. Just that that line of commands may be needed. Any ideas folks?

[fewjr]

Update.....I disabled HAL layer in System>Admin>hardware drivers as per a howto I read. I unistalled old Madwifi modules and downloaded and compliled the latest Madwifi. Everything went fine there. Then I ran the following commands in the terminal:


goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo ifconfig ath0 down
[sudo] password for goblin:
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo dhclient -r ath0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/ath0/00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
Sending on LPF/ath0/00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on ath0 to 192.168.0.1 port 67
send_packet: Network is unreachable
send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address.
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo ifconfig ath0 up
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwpriv ath0 authmode 2
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "tubescreamer"
[sudo] password for goblin:
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo iwconfig ath0 mode Managed
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo dhclient ath0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 134519072
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/ath0/00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
Sending on LPF/ath0/00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$

The first time I did it after I put in new Madwifi it connected via DHCP to my router and acquired an IP. It even pinged Google okay. It however was conflicting with eth0 I guess because I was still using Firefox and it couldn't get on that way. I unplugged ethernet cable and rebooted and ran all the commands to bring up ath0 again. I couldn't get an IP this time or any other time since. The output above is what I get now even after I run sudo ifconfig eth0 down. I know my NIC is working because I saw it connect. What is going on here with my wireless Please help!

Here is the output of ifconfig again:

goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
inet6 addr: fe80::215:e9ff:fe89:b41f/64 Scope:Link
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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

ath0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
inet addr:169.254.6.238 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:d0:5b:98:d4
inet addr:192.168.0.104 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:d0ff:fe5b:98d4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2340 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1615 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2802197 (2.6 MB) TX bytes:202544 (197.7 KB)
Interrupt:222 Base address:0xa000

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:2064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:103200 (100.7 KB) TX bytes:103200 (100.7 KB)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-15-E9-89-B4-1F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:141557 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:289278
TX packets:1688 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:13914915 (13.2 MB) TX bytes:80258 (78.3 KB)
Interrupt:20

IWCONFIG:



goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"tubescreamer" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retryff RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-92 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:139925 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

and lshw:




goblin@goblin-lanbox:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for goblin:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR2413 802.11bg NIC
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0
logical name: wifi0
version: 01
serial: 00:15:e9:89:b4:1f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: nVidia Corporation
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
logical name: eth0
version: a2
serial: 00:1f:d0:5b:98:d4
size: 1GB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.104 latency=0 link=yes maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes port=MII speed=1GB/s

[fewjr]

I marked this thread as solved. I changed my wireless settings in my router from WEP to WPA personal. It would not connect with WEP no matter what I did. So anyone using Hardy with this Atheros chipset, give WPA a try. Its more secure anyway.