madwifi or not?

Chris Wilson blixtra at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 04:44:45 UTC 2005


madwifi is in the linux-restricted-modules package for your kernel
version. I haven't set up wpa yet. You can check if the modules are
loaded with

lsmod | grep ath

Cheers,
Chris

On 8/20/05, Jochen Kaechelin <gissmoh at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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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