[Voyage-linux] madwifi weirdness in voyage

[Drew]

No, I never figured out the problem. It seems like a bug in madwifi to 
me if scanning works but associating doesn't.

Nuno Ferreira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having the same problems!!
> Have you found out more about this problem, hopefully the solution :-) ?
>
> I have a WRAP.1E-2 and the Wistron CM9 is detected as a 5212 by r1611 in
> voyage-current (2Jun)
>
> Bad link quality and short range...
>
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:11 -0800, Drew wrote:
>   
>> I'm having major problems connecting to AP's with madwifi/voyage 
>> (2.6.14-486-voyage #1)/CM9 card:
>>
>> iwlist shows a quality of 25/94:
>>
>> AW1:/var/log# iwlist ath0 scan
>> ath0      Scan completed :
>>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:20:A6:47:89:51
>>                     ESSID:"aw4a"
>>                     Mode:Master
>>                     Frequency:5.3 GHz (Channel 60)
>>                     Quality=25/94  Signal level=-70 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>>                     Encryption key:off
>>                     Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
>>                               36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>>                     Extra:bcn_int=100
>>
>> yet iwconfig has a quality of 0/94:
>>
>> AW1:/var/log# iwconfig ath0
>> ath0      IEEE 802.11a  ESSID:"aw4a" 
>>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.3 GHz  Access Point: 
>> 00:20:A6:47:89:51  
>>           Bit Rate:6 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3 
>>           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>>           Encryption key:off
>>           Power Management:off
>>           Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>>           Rx invalid nwid:49  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>>           Tx excessive retries:10  Invalid misc:10   Missed beacon:0
>>
>> I've tried just about everything, rebooting several times, etc. When the 
>> aw4a ap moves it's antenna, I can see the quality with iwlist degrade & 
>> improve, so the quality reading does seem accurate. I've also tried 
>> setting iwconfig ath0 sens 1 to get it off of 0/3, but that has no 
>> effect. I can't connect to the ap. Any ideas?
>>
>> /Drew
>>
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