Atheros AR922X, Fedora 13, No Connection

[paulol]

Hello,
I recently bought a D-Link DWA-547, but im not able to set up a connection

lspci:

06:06.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

uname -r

2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64

Its Fedora 13.

Thanks.


Driver:

[paulo@paulo-fedora ~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
tcp_lp                  2111  0 
vboxnetadp              4871  0 
vboxnetflt             13331  0 
vboxdrv              1756785  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
sunrpc                198573  1 
nf_conntrack_ftp       11389  0 
ip6t_REJECT             4111  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      17856  4 
ip6table_filter         1671  1 
ip6_tables             17580  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  275768  54 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
uinput                  7455  0 
nvidia              10850129  38 
arc4                    1433  2 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   297127  1 
ecb                     2087  2 
ath9k                  79156  0 
ath9k_common            2487  1 ath9k
mac80211              220214  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath9k_hw              216431  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
snd_hda_intel          23960  2 
snd_hda_codec          85624  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
ath                     9374  2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
snd_hwdep               6454  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                53005  0 
snd_seq_device          6159  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm                80324  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
cfg80211              134025  4 ath9k,ath9k_common,mac80211,ath
snd_timer              19882  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    62929  12 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6390  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7437  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
rfkill                 17218  1 cfg80211
i2c_piix4              11942  0 
i2c_core               25709  2 nvidia,i2c_piix4
r8169                  35547  0 
mii                     4278  1 r8169
edac_core              39175  0 
edac_mce_amd            7855  0 
serio_raw               4588  0 
k10temp                 3343  0 
wmi                     6888  0 
joydev                  9771  0 
xhci_hcd               83615  0 
microcode              18282  0 
ata_generic             3427  0 
firewire_ohci          20544  0 
firewire_core          44982  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t               1547  1 firewire_core
pata_atiixp             4117  0 
pata_jmicron            2627  0 
pata_acpi               3419  0 
usb_storage            45368  0

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

It looks like you've got the right driver loaded.
What is the output of

ifconfig
iwconfig

[paulol]

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan1     IEEE 802.11bgn  Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          
vboxnet0  no wireless extensions.

ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 6C:F0:49:52:6E:6D  
          inet Adresse:192.168.137.49  Bcast:192.168.137.255  Maske:255.255.255.0
          inet6 Adresse: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe52:6e6d/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1283 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:945035 (922.8 KiB)  TX bytes:174504 (170.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:29 Basisadresse:0x8000 

lo        Link encap:Lokale Schleife  
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0 
          RX bytes:2240 (2.1 KiB)  TX bytes:2240 (2.1 KiB)

wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 1C:AF:F7:F6:0F:74  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[Manko10]

Looks like you already have established a cable-based connection. You should first close this connection and take down eth0.
Then you need a driver for connecting to an WPA encrypted network therefore you need to install and configure wpa_supplicant.

I also had an D-Link DWA-547 once and the ath9k driver has the advantage that you don't need any additional firmware and also VMWare bridged network works fine but the data throughput of DWA-547 is very low so I switched back to my old b43 based card.

[paulol]

The Wpa_supplicant was installed, but how to configure it?

Its my second DWA-547, my first was broken and where replaced.
The old one was working nicely without any modifications (Linux Mint).

[Manko10]

I always had only half of the signal strength with DWA-547 I have with my Broadcom chip.
I don't know which philosophy Fedora has for wpa_supplicant and therefore I only know the manual way I take on Gentoo. But it's not always recommendable to do everything by hand on other distributions because some graphical tools might overwrite the settings.
Are you able to scan surrounding wireless networks?

[paulol]

My Knetworkmanager is not showing up wireless networks
in the Networkconfiguration my Wireless-Adapter is deaktivated :O
but i cannot activate it

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No screenshot...

[Manko10]

Do you get any error message when running

sudo ifconfig wlan1 up

[jayd512]

Also, what is the result of

iwlist scan

[paulol]

Do you get any error message when running

sudo ifconfig wlan1 up

No message.

 iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan1     No scan results

vboxnet0  Interface doesn't support scanning.