[Voyage-linux] madwifi weirdness in voyage

[Drew]

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