My Dell laptop has a Atheros 2425 chipset wireless card. Slitaz automatically detected and installed the driver for it (ath5k), but I cannot seem to get it to connect to the wireless router. Udhcpc simply keeps sending discovers with no luck. I read in many places that there is an issue with this card with most Linux kernels. There appears to be a solution (http://madberry.org/2008/08/how-to-get-atheros-ar242x-wireless-to-work-2/), but that requires compiling the driver (not too comfortable with that).
Does anyone know of another solution to this issue?
so yes, it is loaded, I also tried rmmod ath5k, then modprobe ath5k, then network.sh restart, just to be sure. This is the output of network.sh restart:
Stopping all interfaces Killing all daemons killall: udhcpc: no process killed Shutting down wifi card Configuring wlan0... Starting wpa_supplicant for WPA-PSK... Starting udhcpc client on: wlan0... Selected interface 'wlan0'
Typically after the above, atleast with my other laptops that use wl, in a few seconds udhcpc will procure an ip address. However, with this laptop that never happens.
One other thing that's a bit unusual. ifconfig outputs three interfaces, 1. the default loopback adapter, 2. wlan0 and 3. wmaster0. Now I have never seen wmaster0 anywhere else except with this laptop. This interface has the same MAC as wlan0 except the MAC is followed by quite a few 00-00-00s. The Link encap says UNSPEC. Not sure if this is helpful, but thought I would mention it.
jozee has a fix, but its for the Ar8132 chipset. I need something similar. Maybe I will just have to compile the driver for this box -- just that compiling stuff is really not my cup of tea. I've done it before, so I guess it's time to do it again :(!