Atheros Wifi Card, SuSE

[Wifi_is_evil]

I have an atheros wifi card which is supported by Madwifi. I downloaded, installed and yast was detecting. When I went on wifi manager it automatically detected my Belkin54g network. When I connected, at 28% it asked for my WEP key. I entered it and it said connected but it wasn't.

Next time it found my network again, but it didn't ask for my wep key. It then didn't connect, although it said it did.

It doesn't return an IP, but it picks up my frequency.

[majo]

Did you check your IP settings ???

[Wifi_is_evil]

Yes- and it connected to my neighbours wifi fine. It says signal strength is 53 for my own wifi network but still nothing.

[majo]

can you ping your acces point

ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

from your konsole

[Wifi_is_evil]

no, it tells me "the access point is not reachable."

[majo]

Any chance you have MAC filters set on your router, and you did not set the MAC address of your WIFI. ??? ALso check the channels if they talking on same one.

[Wifi_is_evil]

I got it to find my IP! But mozilla and everything else still don't work . It only finds the IP 1/5 times though. Mac address configuration is all fine.

ALso check the channels if they talking on same one.

What do you mean?

[Wifi_is_evil]

I tried a different wifi card- it also finds my belkin54g network but at a signal strength of 10.

Also, I got it to go up to 57% (configuring IP) with my old cad but then it stops and says "connected" (although it isn't).

[majo]

each card and access point have their own channels where they talking through them. I think the range is 1-12, normally they should be recognised automatically but sometimes they not, so try to check if AP and card has same channel selected.

I got it to find my IP! But mozilla and everything else still don't work . It only finds the IP 1/5 times though.

what you mean by that

can you ping that IP ??? do you have correct Gateway on WIFI ???
and what about DNS - do you have them setup correctly or do you have them at all???

can you send results of ifconfig:

type in terminal under su - ifconfig

[Wifi_is_evil]

What I mean is, when I hovered over belkin54g with my mouse on Knetworkmanager, it said my IP. I didn't get a chance to try ping.

Gateway is correct.

DNS is set.


Ifconfig results:


ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:78:71:7B:35
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3913 (3.8 Kb) TX bytes:10537 (10.2 Kb)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:E8:F0:37
inet addr:192.168.100.24 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::217:31ff:fee8:f037/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4867 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:515079 (503.0 Kb)
Interrupt:177

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:EE:E0:66
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17658 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1746419 (1.6 Mb) TX bytes:2674 (2.6 Kb)
Interrupt:169

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1540 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1540 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:124320 (121.4 Kb) TX bytes:124320 (121.4 Kb)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-14-78-71-7B-35-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 -00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:612292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:115358
TX packets:18310 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:50551899 (48.2 Mb) TX bytes:856053 (835.9 Kb)
Interrupt:225 Memory:ffffc20000f60000-ffffc20000f70000



Thanks, majo.