I have a Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7170 as router and try to connect wireless to it with the Fritz!WLAN USB N2.4 stick using the compat-wireless software. Without succes so far. Software: yesterdays bleeding edge tarball: compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 Kernel: Ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-16-generic PC: Athec L51A10 Firmware: ar9170.fw put in /lib/firmware The software compiles without problem and installs the driver after reboot: sudo lsmod | grep 9170 gives: ar9170usb 63624 0 led_class 12036 1 ar9170usb ath 17024 1 ar9170usb mac80211 218160 1 ar9170usb cfg80211 135240 3 ar9170usb,ath,mac80211 After inserting the usb stick, this is shown in /var/log/messages Oct 25 15:37:00 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 301.480049] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 Oct 25 15:37:00 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 301.643507] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Oct 25 15:37:00 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 301.702461] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Oct 25 15:37:00 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 301.702650] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 25 15:37:00 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 301.702803] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage Oct 25 15:37:00 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 301.702808] USB Mass Storage support registered. Oct 25 15:37:05 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 306.709252] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM FRITZ! WLAN selfinstall 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS Oct 25 15:37:05 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 306.722276] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Oct 25 15:37:05 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 306.723067] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 Oct 25 15:38:38 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 399.349605] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 5 Oct 25 15:38:39 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 400.608057] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Oct 25 15:38:39 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 400.771795] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Oct 25 15:38:39 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 400.888063] usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Oct 25 15:38:40 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 402.044043] usb 1-1: firmware: requesting ar9170.fw Oct 25 15:38:41 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 402.465806] Registered led device: ar9170-phy1::tx Oct 25 15:38:41 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 402.465846] Registered led device: ar9170-phy1::assoc Oct 25 15:38:41 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 402.465851] usb 1-1: Atheros AR9170 is registered as 'phy1' Oct 25 15:38:41 vaessen-laptop kernel: [ 402.471136] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1 It seems the firmware is installed. Command iwconfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. pan0 no wireless extensions. wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff Power Managementff Command sudo lshw -C network gives for the wireless this information: *-network:1 DISABLED description: Wireless interface physical id: 2 bus info: usb@1:1 logical name: wlan1 serial: 00:1f:3f:09:2d:40 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ar9170usb driverversion=2.6.28-16-generic firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg This 'firmware=N/A' puzzles me. I used System->Administration->Network Tools but cannot ping the Fritz!Box router The interface information says that wireless interface wlan1 is inactive. How do I make it active? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
