Re: MADWIFI

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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Karl