[Voyage-linux] Basic Wifi problem

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Matt,

This is the exactly the same config I have in my office eveyday, it works for me without problem.  Can you show the 
output of:

# ifconfig -a
# route -n

To further troubshoot you should have enable serial console in ALIX box in order to see what happens.

Regards,
Punky

On 5/6/2011 12:53 PM, Big Booger wrote:
> 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)
>
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Regards,
Kim-man "Punky" Tse

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