David Boles wrote:
on 7/7/2007 2:05 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
Temlakos wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
Steven Stern wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I went to the web page of the developers at SourceForge and I
really
can't find anything but a tarball from that page. If it is possible to
get a kernel rpm for F7 it must be on the Livina list.
I installed the Livina list and used yum install madwifi and got 2
rpm files neither of which were a kernel. It seems it MUST be a kernel
or it can't work.
Does anyone know the proper yum call to get a madwifi kernel?
Karl
As Erich points out, you can download the RPM from Livna.
I build from source. It's pretty easy:
svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi
cd madwifi
make
make install
The first time you install, use "modprobe ath_pci" before rebooting.
Well the make install must be quite a program. I'm old and I recall
you must compile both the things in the kernel and all the modules. I
really don't see how that can part of the make install.
And the yum of a kernel FAILED because I already have a later kernel.
It might have madwifi but I can't find it.
This whole thing is just a pain!
Karl
The program kmod-madwifi is the /kernel module/ for madwifi. The key:
you must install a kernel module built specially for the kernel you
want to run it with.
Question for everyone: does the new kernel have any of its own WiFi
code, and if so, does that code substitute for MADWifi for use with
Atheros-based wireless NICs?
Temlakos
It does. I have wifi on MY laptop now and I had to go to the F7
updated kernel which is Fedora (2.6.21-1.3228.fc7)
which has the old ath_pci and supporting things in it's module stack.
I had the new kernel that is 3232 that has a lot of the new wifi stuff
but not madwifi.
I need to do some cleanup and am writing a paper on how to get your
linux to do wifi. It will be long but much more structured than the help
I get here.
Karl
Sorry to rain on your parade here. 8-)
Well let us see what I can find...
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Google search:
Linux wifi - 8,210,000 hits in 0.11 seconds.
Linux MADwifi - 977,000 hits in 0.10 seconds
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Yahoo search:
Linux wifi - 23,800,000 hits in 0.31 seconds
Linux MADwifi - 415,000 hits in 0.22 seconds
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Answers search:
Linux wifi - 514,000 hits
Linux MADwifi - 230 hits for books about this subject
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Yes David and did you ever see in those 120,000 hits the thing that
is essential? Did you anywhere see ath_pci????? I didn't.
Karl
