[Voyage-linux] Is it possible up ath0 with Atheros 802.11n mini-pci on ALIX?

[Daniel Badawi]

Hi

Thanks for all responses!
Is holyday here in my country and I'm out of home these days...
on tuesday I'll back and post more informantions for the ath9k

The last test I've made was installing the daily build of voyage, witch have
2.6.28 kernel and these one recononize wlan0, but I cannot able setting mode
with iwconfig.


thanks.. and sorry for my bad english



2009/10/10 Jan Hetges <tran at ms20.net>

> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 09:16:55AM +0200, angler31 wrote:
> > 2009/10/10 Daniel Badawi <danielbadawi at gmail.com>:
> > > I have an ALIX, and just bought an 802.11n mini-pci card.
>
> what kind of 802.11n card? lspci helps
>
> > > I tried to up the ath0 interface with the configuration:
> > > auto ath0
> > > iface ath0 inet static
> > >         address 10.1.20.1
> > >         netmask 255.255.255.0
> > >         broadcast 10.1.20.255
> > >         madwifi-base wifi0
> > >         wireless-mode Master
> > >         wireless-essid voyage
> > >         wireless-key s:voyage
> > >         wireless-channel 1
> > >         up iwpriv ath0 mode 3
> > >         up iwconfig ath0 txpower 14
> > >         up athctrl -i wifi0 -d 8000
> > >         down wlanconfig ath0 destroy
> > > auto ath0:0
> > > iface ath0:0 inet static
> > >         address 10.1.20.1
> > >         netmask 255.255.255.0
> > >         broadcast 10.1.20.255
> > >
> > > and when I type # ifup ath0
> > > I receive the message: SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
> >
> > I've never used an 802.11n card (ath9k?), but I think you should have
>
> yes, you probably wanna use/are using ath9k,
> in which case your device is probably named wlan0. the output of
> iwconfig might help here.
>
>  cheers
>
>   --Jan
>
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