[ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

[ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

[Sebastian Henrich]

I just tried to test ath9k together with my openSUSE 11.0 (Default 
kernel Kernel 2.6.25.16) installation. I downloaded the compat-wireless 
tarball and compiled it. The compilation was ok and the driver loaded 
fine. The problem is that I get no connection. I testet WEP, WPA and WPA2.

Does it make sense to test/use ath9k in this way at the moment?

Regards

  Sebastian

[ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 06:03:50PM -0700, Sebastian Henrich wrote:
> I just tried to test ath9k together with my openSUSE 11.0 (Default
> kernel Kernel 2.6.25.16) installation. I downloaded the compat-wireless
> tarball and compiled it. The compilation was ok and the driver loaded
> fine. The problem is that I get no connection. I testet WEP, WPA and WPA2.
> 
> Does it make sense to test/use ath9k in this way at the moment?

You mean compat-wireless-old? So compat-wireless-old should have ath9k
enabled only for 2.6.26 right now. I think you're the first to try it on
a 2.6.25 kernel. It compiled? Can you grep for ATH9K on your /boot/
kernel config file? I doubt OpenSUSE 11.0 is backporting it already...

  Luis

[ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

[Sebastian Henrich]

Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 06:03:50PM -0700, Sebastian Henrich wrote:
>   
>> I just tried to test ath9k together with my openSUSE 11.0 (Default
>> kernel Kernel 2.6.25.16) installation. I downloaded the compat-wireless
>> tarball and compiled it. The compilation was ok and the driver loaded
>> fine. The problem is that I get no connection. I testet WEP, WPA and WPA2.
>>
>> Does it make sense to test/use ath9k in this way at the moment?
>>     
>
> You mean compat-wireless-old? So compat-wireless-old should have ath9k
> enabled only for 2.6.26 right now. I think you're the first to try it on
> a 2.6.25 kernel. It compiled? Can you grep for ATH9K on your /boot/
> kernel config file? I doubt OpenSUSE 11.0 is backporting it already...
>
>   Luis
>
>   
Yes, it was compat-wireless-old. It compiled and load perfect. I also 
get the 2 devices (wlan and ??master). iwlist scan showed me my and my 
neighbors wlan. But I got no connection.  My hardware is a Lenovo 
ThinkPad T60 with an AR5418 device. My actual kernel has no ath9k 
support. I searched the openSUSE buildservice for an compat-wireless 
build but found only an old one.

At the moment I switched back to madwifi but if it helps I continue testing.

 Sebastian

[ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Sebastian Henrich <shss@gmx.de> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 06:03:50PM -0700, Sebastian Henrich wrote:
>>
>>> I just tried to test ath9k together with my openSUSE 11.0 (Default
>>> kernel Kernel 2.6.25.16) installation. I downloaded the compat-wireless
>>> tarball and compiled it. The compilation was ok and the driver loaded
>>> fine. The problem is that I get no connection. I testet WEP, WPA and WPA2.
>>>
>>> Does it make sense to test/use ath9k in this way at the moment?
>>>
>>
>> You mean compat-wireless-old? So compat-wireless-old should have ath9k
>> enabled only for 2.6.26 right now. I think you're the first to try it on
>> a 2.6.25 kernel. It compiled? Can you grep for ATH9K on your /boot/
>> kernel config file? I doubt OpenSUSE 11.0 is backporting it already...
>>
>>   Luis
>>
>>
> Yes, it was compat-wireless-old. It compiled and load perfect. I also
> get the 2 devices (wlan and ??master). iwlist scan showed me my and my
> neighbors wlan. But I got no connection.  My hardware is a Lenovo
> ThinkPad T60 with an AR5418 device. My actual kernel has no ath9k
> support. I searched the openSUSE buildservice for an compat-wireless
> build but found only an old one.
>
> At the moment I switched back to madwifi but if it helps I continue testing.

Thanks for reporting this -- so it seems ath9k doesn't work with
compat-wireless-old on 2.6.25. Unfortunately I don't have time debug
but I hope other interested developers might. My advise then is to
upgrade to 2.6.27-rc6 as that has ath9k.

  Luis

[ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

[Sebastian Henrich]

Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Sebastian Henrich <shss@gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 06:03:50PM -0700, Sebastian Henrich wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I just tried to test ath9k together with my openSUSE 11.0 (Default
>>>> kernel Kernel 2.6.25.16) installation. I downloaded the compat-wireless
>>>> tarball and compiled it. The compilation was ok and the driver loaded
>>>> fine. The problem is that I get no connection. I testet WEP, WPA and WPA2.
>>>>
>>>> Does it make sense to test/use ath9k in this way at the moment?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You mean compat-wireless-old? So compat-wireless-old should have ath9k
>>> enabled only for 2.6.26 right now. I think you're the first to try it on
>>> a 2.6.25 kernel. It compiled? Can you grep for ATH9K on your /boot/
>>> kernel config file? I doubt OpenSUSE 11.0 is backporting it already...
>>>
>>>   Luis
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes, it was compat-wireless-old. It compiled and load perfect. I also
>> get the 2 devices (wlan and ??master). iwlist scan showed me my and my
>> neighbors wlan. But I got no connection.  My hardware is a Lenovo
>> ThinkPad T60 with an AR5418 device. My actual kernel has no ath9k
>> support. I searched the openSUSE buildservice for an compat-wireless
>> build but found only an old one.
>>
>> At the moment I switched back to madwifi but if it helps I continue testing.
>>     
>
> Thanks for reporting this -- so it seems ath9k doesn't work with
> compat-wireless-old on 2.6.25. Unfortunately I don't have time debug
> but I hope other interested developers might. My advise then is to
> upgrade to 2.6.27-rc6 as that has ath9k.
>
>   Luis
>
>   
At the moment I'm writing my bachelor thesis and I don't want to change 
too much of my systems configuration. After this I'll give a newer 
kernel a try or you can tell me where I can start searching the bug.

 Sebastian

[ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

[Sebastian Henrich]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:19:11 -0700
> Von: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
> An: "Sebastian Henrich" <shss@gmx.de>
> Betreff: Re: [ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Sebastian Henrich <shss@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> >>> ThinkPad T60 with an AR5418 device. My actual kernel has no ath9k
> 
> > At the moment I'm writing my bachelor thesis and I don't want to change
> too
> > much of my systems configuration. After this I'll give a newer kernel a
> try
> > or you can tell me where I can start searching the bug.
> 
> Understood. Yeah we would need your involvement to try to get this to
> work as essentially all development happens on wireless-testing. The
> compat-wireless thing exists mainly to help users on older kernels.
> Without proper development interest on older kernels or users we
> cannot get the backports working correctly.
> 
> Can you show your lspci and then lspci -n output?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Luis

sebastian-nb2:~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller

sebastian-nb2:~ # lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:27a0 (rev 03)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:27a1 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 02)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 0604: 8086:27d4 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 0604: 8086:27d6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 02)
00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 02)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 02)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev e2)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27b9 (rev 02)
00:1f.1 0101: 8086:27df (rev 02)
00:1f.2 0106: 8086:27c5 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 02)
01:00.0 0300: 1002:7149
02:00.0 0200: 8086:109a
03:00.0 0280: 168c:0024 (rev 01)
15:00.0 0607: 104c:ac56

I found another issue. I'm sitting here in Germany and I bought an german laptop. If I'm using windows I'm able to access channels 12 and 13. If I'm using linux with ath9k I'm unable to use them.

Sebastian
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