madwifi or not?

Jochen Kaechelin gissmoh at gmx.de
Sat Aug 20 16:43:37 UTC 2005


Am Samstag 20 August 2005 17:51 schrieb Shannon McMackin:
> 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#####1811179fa95
> >f1c75e }
> > ####
> >
> > ####
> > /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.

Thank you!

0000:06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. 
AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4b00
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
        Memory at 1f000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

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