[Voyage-linux] voyage & emp/nmp-8602 woes

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Drew,

Probably the version of madwifi-ng driver (HAL) is too old to support 
single chip atheros.  I think RB BIOS should be OK at least it can 
detect the card.

Regards,
Punky

Drew wrote:
> I'm having problems getting madwifi to bring up ath0 with my new 
> emp-8602 mini-pci card in my routerboard 230. Madwifi was working fine 
> with the previous card, a CM9. I suspected there was a hardware issue 
> with the new card since the old card was fine, but Routerboard assures 
> me that there's no new BIOS updates, and that my problem is the 
> driver. Perhaps the version of madwifi in voyage is too old to support 
> the 8602?
>
> Linux AW1 2.6.14-486-voyage #1 PREEMPT Wed Jan 4 07:21:53 GMT 2006 
> i586 GNU/Linux
>
> dmesg:
> ath_pci
> ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
> wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> ath_rate_sample: 1.2
> ath_pci: 0.9.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>
> ...
>
> Configuring network interfaces...ath0 no private ioctls.
>
> Failed to bring up ath0.
>
>
> Is there a way to update madwifi with my version of voyage without 
> starting over, since it's built into the kernel? I tried just doing 
> apt-get install of madwifi-ng-modules-2.6.15-486-voyage, but that 
> didn't have any effect.
>
> Thanks,
> Drew
>
>
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Punky

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