Oddball Atheros card causing problems.

[Noah Dain]

On 11/4/06, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  After literally weeks (!) of trying to get a wireless card working in
> Master mode on my machine, I did what I should have done on day 1 and type
> *lspci -v*.  This is the relevant block (*bold* is my emphasis):
>
>  0000:01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: *Unknown
> device 001a (rev 01)*
>         Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc.: *Unknown device 1052*
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 201
>         Memory at f8420000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
>
> So, this card is an unknown device which the networking tools
> kind-of-partially-but-not-quite-sort-of know what to do with.  I've had it
> working in Managed mode just fine, but I can't get it working in Master mode
> at all.  What's the usual next step when you find a piece of oddball
> hardware like this?
>

Definitely the wrong list for this.  Post this on the madwifi list.

join up:  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/madwifi-users

you may also want to include the relevant output from dmesg (try grepping
for 'wifi' and 'ath') when the modules are loaded.

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