madwifi or not?

Shannon McMackin mcmackin at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 20 15:51:19 UTC 2005


Jochen Kaechelin wrote:
> i have a netgear WG511T and FritzBox WLAN FON.
> everything works fine with WEP but WPA won't work.
> 
> my wireless-card runs with these kernel-modules
> 
> ath_pci                55584  0
> ath_rate_onoe           8840  1 ath_pci
> wlan                  106588  4 wlan_wep,ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe
> ath_hal               133328  2 ath_pci
> 
> out of the box running hoary with all updates.
> 
> ####
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
> 
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> eapol_version=1
> ap_scan=2
> network={
>       ssid="OX-XXXXX"
>       proto=WPA
>       key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>       pairwise=TKIP
>       group=TKIP
>       psk=088447a0dbba29########ecfff3e#####c0d107730#####1811179fa95f1c75e
> }
> ####
> 
> ####
> /etc/default/wpasupplicant:
> 
> ENABLED=1
> OPTIONS="-w -i ath0 -D madwifi -B"
> ####
> 
> 
> ####
> /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> auto ath0
> iface ath0 inet dhcp
> 
> pre-up /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -D madwifi -i ath0 
> -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
> post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
> 
> ####
> 
> Do I really have madwifi???
> Theres no .deb called "madwifi" on my system, but severel
> documentations who describe how to install madwifi from source
> uses the same kernel modules as I do.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
A simple lspci -v -v will tell you what network chipset you have.  The 
madwifi driver is probably part of the kernel as opposed to an add-on 
module which is why you don't see a separate .deb for it.

If it's Atheros, then you use madwifi.

Shannon





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