Madwifi help needed

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 19:45:54 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> writes:
>
> I found an <$10 wire antenna with a few feet of cable and magnetic
> mount that works well enough.  I taped a piece of L-shaped sheet metal
> to the top center of the display and stick the antenna to that.  The
> extra cable is wrapped in a loop and taped to the back of the display.
> I love that clear mylar packaging tape for "temporary" hacks like
> this.
>
I got mine this morning - pretty much the same specification as the one in the 
link, except that it's only 1m. length - barely enough to get to the desktop.

>       http://sharperconcepts.zoovy.com/product/YSC-RE05U
>
Unfortunately, it hasn't helped at all.

Here's what is happening at bootup:

ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.3.1)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.1)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.3.1)
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[00023c002105a814]
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 
36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xea000000, irq=18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20

It looks OK to me.  Any ideas of what else I could check?  Thanks

Anne