Trouble with channel frequency

[michelinok]

've successfully associated to the AP, but I cannot ping anything,and cannot navigate.
I've noticed (using iwconfig) that the frequency is always different between each "iwconfig":

bt ~ # iwconfig ath0
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"thenet" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:xx:xx:xx
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:31 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr: off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:0875-6513-1923-3456-7893-5619-66 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=17/94 Signal level=-79 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries: 0 Invalid misc: 0 Missed beacon:0

bt ~ # iwconfig ath0
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"thenet" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:xx:xx:xx
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:31 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:0875-6513-1923-3456-7893-5619-66 Security mode:open
Power Management: off
Link Quality=17/94 Signal level=-78 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag: 0
Tx excessive retries: 0 Invalid misc: 0 Missed beacon: 0

As you cann see the Frequency is 2.442 GHz , and doing another iwconfig shows that the frequency is 2.417 Ghz

This is the output of "top" (i didn't notice any program that could change the channel):

bt ~ # top
top - 15:04:05 up 10 min, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.16, 0.11
Tasks: 87 total, 1 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.5%us, 1.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.1%id, 3.6%wa, 0.7%hi, 0.4%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2072988k total, 265016k used, 1807972k free, 3984k buffers
Swap: 4096564k total, 0k used, 4096564k free, 130040k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3257 root 15 0 12228 8164 5256 S 6.0 0.4 0:08.20 artsd
1 root 15 0 716 264 232 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.72 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 events/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
96 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
97 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
211 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
212 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
213 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
216 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khubd
218 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod
238 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
239 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
240 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
241 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
242 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 jfsIO
243 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 jfsCommit
244 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 jfsSync
245 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xfslogd/0
246 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xfsdatad/0
951 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2
952 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_3
960 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 scsi_eh_4
961 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_5
972 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_6
973 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_7
978 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 exec-osm/0
983 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 block-osm/0
1005 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kcryptd/0
1006 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmpathd/0
1007 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksnapd
1008 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmirrord
1093 root 16 -4 1808 548 336 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 udevd


What's wrong!?
There's no mac filter on the router.

[rumburak514]

You are not associated to AP. The card is hopping on channels trying to find the AP. Iwconfig status is somehow misleading, maybe its the bug in madwifi-ng.
I don't see it in the action , so don't know the reason, but
if you have any ath1 : wlanconfig ath1 destroy
try aswell ifconfig ath0 down , ifconfig ath0 up.
Try different key, look at it careful.

[michelinok]

Thanks for the reply.
I've checked everything, and everything is ok.
Since there's no mac filter,what can prevent the association?!