Atheros AR5212 wireless w/wpa supplicant not working

I've got a Lenovo Z61 laptop with the Atheros AR5212 wireless chipset. I got it working with network manager and knetworkmanager in KDE but it wasn't connecting consistently so I went to the network profiles method of setting up the interface on boot. Still have the same problem with it not connecting and failing. Most of the time the only thing in the everything.log is: "ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready". Is this a problem with the madwifi driver? Should I switch to ndiswrapper and see if that works every time? This really has me perplexed.
Jason
Last edited by jason.foz (2007-10-11 02:39:42)

Did you follow this page of the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ndi … supplicant ?
I have the same chip in my laptop & following those instructions, but substituting "dhcp" in there & where he says "wlan0", i put "ath0" instead, worked. Follow that page up to the part where he talks about fwcutter (ignore that bit), and i also didn't use the menu/profiles system he recommended. But making a file in /etc/network-profiles (i called it ath0), and the rest of his instructions, did work.

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