On Mon, 28 May 2007 19:59:41 +0100 Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After careful research I ordered wireless PCI cards that were said to > "work out of the box". When they didn't I realised that my vendor > had said they were out of stock. They had been replaced by X-Micro > cards, which are atheros cards. I've been following the madwifi > instructions, and have got the to part of setting WPA-PSK. The final > command listed in this section is > > /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -dd -D > madwifi -iath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf > > or is it > > /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -dd -Dmadwifi -iath0 > -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ? > > Either way, I just got dozens of lines of 'Invalid ESSID line' > messages. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Anne > I know next to nothing about wifi, but this current thread Re: Wifi is about someone who got madwifi working. Apologies if you've already seen it and it doesn't help.
