Thinkpads Forum

Hello gang,
I am facing the same problem now as stuck..
Let me give you a run through so far:

1- I have a Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbons 7.10 installed on my Thinkpad T61 (so an atheros card)
2- I could initially detect wireless networks and connect to them with ease.
3- When I initially installed KUbuntu, on checking the default interface settings for ath0, I saw that it was neither automatic nor manual was checked.

Today, I don't know what nut came off my brain, I checked automatic and it has stopped showing me wireless networks !
But I can see

ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:26:62:06:A3
inet addr:192.12.89.182 Bcast:192.12.89.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:26ff:fe62:6a3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20440 (19.9 KB) TX bytes:48424 (47.2 KB)

.....

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1C-26-62-06-A3-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:426703 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:147720
TX packets:975 errors:82 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:42182794 (40.2 MB) TX bytes:83451 (81.4 KB)
Interrupt:17


when I do an ifconfig (when I do an
$ifconfig ath0 up)

I am trying to reinstall the madwifi drivers (I don't know if it is the right thing to do) and I am getting the same error

FATAL: Module wlan_scan_sta is in use.
FATAL: Module wlan is in use.

when I run :
./madwifi-unload.bash
inside the scripts directory ....

Could someone please throw some light ?


-chakravarthy

two things:

1. This nees to be in Linux forum.

2. Madwifi drivers are buggy. Try going back one build or using the latest build from the \trunk folder. Also, there is a lot of information about madwifi issues on ubuntuformus.