Comment 5 for bug 221837

Change the Wireless Interface to ath0, then it should work. The driver is
Wext.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:18 AM, pigi.monaco <email address hidden> wrote:

> I've installed Wicd. It works nicely as far as wired connection is
> concerned, but it does not see any wireless connection. In the Preferences
> window, after the WPA Supplicant Driver (I've selected wext, but also tried
> madwifi and ndiswrapper) the Wired interface is eth0, the Wireless interface
> is None.
> Also, I'm confused because I can't see eth0 with ifconfig any more...
>
> > If this doesn't work, try switching to WPA supplicant first, then
> installing wicd.
>
> What does it mean exactly?
>
> Pierluigi
>
> --
> madwifi not working on macbook core duo with hardy
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221837
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>
> Status in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> After installing ubuntu 8.04 on my new macbook core duo, I installed
> madwifi following the instructions here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook
>
> I obtained:
> > wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-trunk-current.tar.gz
> ...
> > tar -zxvf madwifi-trunk-current.tar.gz
> ...
> > cd madwifi-trunk-r3573-20080425/
> > make
> ...
> > make install-modules
> ...
> > echo -e '#!/bin/sh\n/sbin/iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0' | sudo tee -a
> /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-madwifi-bgscan.sh
> ...
> > chmod 755 /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-madwifi-bgscan.sh
> > modprobe ath_pci
> > lsmod | grep ath
> ath_pci 239928 0
> wlan 236272 1 ath_pci
> ath_hal 253920 1 ath_pci
>
> > iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0
> ath0 no private ioctls.
>
> > ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:5b:f5:2e:f8
> inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::21f:5bff:fef5:2ef8/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:3969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:2833 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:5558180 (5.3 MB) TX bytes:248961 (243.1 KB)
> Interrupt:17
>
> 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:3020 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:3020 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:151000 (147.4 KB) TX bytes:151000 (147.4 KB)
>
>
> ...so the ath0 and wifi0 devices are not there. These are the last four
> lines of dmesg output:
>
> [ 233.654814] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> [ 233.657570] ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111,
> RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133)
> [ 233.679532] wlan: svn r3573
> [ 233.690538] ath_pci: svn r3573
>
> Any help most welcome, a laptop without wireless is not much use!
> Pierluigi Monaco
>
> PS:
> > lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 8.04
> Release: 8.04
>