Atheros AR5212/5213 miniPCI on Tochiba Tecra Laptop

[waverider]

Hopefully someone can help me here.

I have read and tried the solution given by divide0 in the thread 'Atheros 802.11(?)G wireless not working' but it doesn't seem to solve my problem.
Using an Atheros AR5212/5213 miniPCI on Toshiba Tecra Laptop, the card appears to be active but will not connect to my AP.

It is dual boot and sadly WindowsXP will connect perfectly so there is no problem with the card.

I have installed madwifi exactly as suggested in the other thread but still I can't connect. The card is working as iwlist scan sees my AP and sudo iwconfig shows ath0 with the ESSID correct and the encription key (WEP) correct as below:

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"MyESSID"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power: 16dBm Sensitivity=-1/1
Retry=off RTS thr=off Fragment thr=off
Encryption key:<WEP key in hex here correctly> Security mode:restricted
Power Managementff
Link Quality:44/70 Signal level:-52 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:7547 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Any help would be gretly appreciated

[madberry]

Re: Atheros AR5212/5213 miniPCI on Tochiba Tecra Laptop

Please post the results of:

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst | grep Ubuntu

modinfo ath_pci | grep version

lspci

This will help us fix your problem.

[mad]Berry

[waverider]

Re: Atheros AR5212/5213 miniPCI on Tochiba Tecra Laptop

thanks madberry,


bob@Laptop:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst | grep Ubuntu
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-18-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-18-generic (recovery mode)
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic (recovery mode)
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+

bob@Laptop:~$ modinfo ath_pci | grep version
version: svn r3698
srcversion: F92E94FC0D46044415E370C

bob@Laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 41)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 41)
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
02:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:0d.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 03)
bob@Laptop:~$

[waverider]

Re: Atheros AR5212/5213 miniPCI on Tochiba Tecra Laptop

It would appear that my problem is DHCP related. Using Wifi-Radar, if I put an IP and other details in manually, it connects perfectly, but if I leave it set to Auto DHCP it will not pick up an IP address. It is a Kubuntu problem it would seem as Windows will pick up the IP automatically every time.