atheros wifi

[Robgould]

I have seen several threads on here...been looking all over the internet for an answer, but yet to find it. So here I am posting again. I have been gone for a while...tried suse 9.3. It worked ok, and my wireless card worked right away, so I know it works under linux.

I came back to fedora because it actually seems more stable to me. I just can't get my wireless card to work.

I have madwifi installed

My wireless card is integrated. It gets detected.

When I go to kwifi, I can see my ap. It gets ssid, signal strength, channel, transmission rate, everything it seems except an IP address.

I have security turned off....no key....on the ap.

when I try to activate the connection (ath0) I get an error:

Error for wireless request set bit rate (8b20)
set failed on dev ath0: invalid argument

detecting IP information for ath o.....failed

I feel like I am right on the edge, I just can't get an IP.

Please help!!!

Maybe coincidence - several times messing with kwifi I also get sound errors....not hardware detected ot something....just fyi.

[Robgould]

One more thing....when I do

dhclient ath0

It is looking for the IP on port 67. Is that right?

[BiPolar]

one possible issue, do you have the password set correctly? try using networkmanager?

[Robgould]

I'm not sure which password you mean. I think I have used network manger, but I do not know where to put in a password.

[Robgould]

It is fixed..........I have no idea what I did. The last thing I did was turn off encryption, but I had restarted linux since then. I booted to look for the password and it worked.....I have no idea.

[BiPolar]

my guess is that since you no longer had encryption, it was able to connect. it was looking for a password before, and that was possibly why it was failing.

[Brian1]

One thing you might try in the future is if it works in one setup and not another, find the config files like /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and compare to the other and see what is different. Did it on some app a long time ago and had it running. The really odd issue is not every distro has the same file in the same location.

Brian1