[Voyage-linux] Basic Wifi problem

[Big Booger]

Hi

I am having some wifi problems with an Alix board and an athereos wifi mini PCI 
card.  I have voyage mpd 7.7.0 on the alix.  I have the board running no problem 
through ethernet, and the wifi card scans (see iwlist below).  Also when I run 
nmap on my network I get the ethernet connection showing and another address 
that I assume is the wifi connection.  I can ssh into the wifi address (at least 
I assume it is the wifi address), but when I disconnect the ethernet cable my 
connection through the wifi address is disabled.  Does anyone have any insight 
into what is going on here?  I would like to have this alix board supply my DAC 
and connect to my Arch Server through wifi - i do not want to have to have an 
ethernet cable permenently connected to the board.  I have tried booting the 
board up with out an Ethernet cable connected, and nmap shows no new connection 
onto my network.  Any help is appreciated. 

I have attached some information below.  Let me know if I should supply any more 
information.

Regards,
Matt 


>From running #iwlist ath0 scan
 Cell 02 - Address: 06:26:F2:F4:31:E5
                    ESSID:"TestMatt"
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
                    Quality=42/70  Signal level=-53 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 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=200
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    
Extra:wme_ie=dd180050f2020101850003a4000027a4000042435e0062322f00


Interfaces file contents:
# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0  inet dhcp
        madwifi-base wifi0
        wireless-mode Managed
        wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf


Contents of wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
        ssid="TestMatt"
        #psk="password"
        psk=96c98dc5ca179fe2286d29eb0dd5021ad44fac388c1aeae121b8de6e40e2fa65
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        proto=WPA
#       proto=RSN       #uncomment for WPA2
}


Output of # lspci
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] Host 
Bridge (rev 33)
00:01.2 Entertainment encryption device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode LX 
AES Security Block
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5413 802.11abg NIC 
(rev 01)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] ISA 
(rev 03)
00:0f.2 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] IDE 
(rev 01)
00:0f.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] 
OHC (rev 02)
00:0f.5 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] 
EHC (rev 02)