Networking :: madwifi.tar.gz

DSL does indeed see the contents of the /modules directory in the root of the boot partition, however it does not unpack them and load them for me. I also tried unpacking them and placing them in this directory. In this case it loaded them, except the ath_pci.o which is the one it needs to load to work. It still doesn't connect with my card. For some reason, no matter what I do, it won't load ath_pci.o

Maybe ath_pci.o is loaded in alphabetical order and it depends on the other modules being loaded first.

Either try manually loading ath_pci.o, IE:

sudo su
insmod /cdrom/modules/ath_pci.o

and then run the appropriate networking configuration script for your needs.

Or maybe you can rename it or symlink it to

zzz_ath_pci.o

Just a thought

The base modules and not a .tar.gz is placed under the modules directory.
Because at this point order is important you may need an additional module to be loaded first. I would look at your 1.5 setup and do a lsmod and look for any other module that would be in the madwifi collection. Then try to insmod that module first. cbagger is correct when he states the modules would be autoloaded in alphabetic order. It is easy to change the order with a prefix as he suggested. Once the module is accepted/loaded then you would still have to try the various wireless setup scripts, and you must know what your device name is. I wish I had such a device to help with you. When I did this for a pctel winmodem there were two modules that had to be insmod'ed and order was important, I ended up using prefix method like this 00- and 01-
Now user tempestuous has experience with this and has stated that it depends on wlan.o
So be sure to insmod wlan.o before ath_pci.o
I would try to get it working manually first by insmod, then
I would add to modules directory like 00-wlan.o and 01-ath_pci.o or at the bottom with the zz prefix.

Thanks for sticking with me on this. I've tried every suggestion now and in several instances, with different methods of configuation, ath_hal.o and wlan.o with dependancies, both load fine, but ath_pci.o fails to load, sometimes with errors, and sometimes not. I tried different orders with and without using symlinks to do it, and then by eliminating all of the unused modules and using insmod to load them with bootlocal.sh, in the same order that DSL-1.5 loads them, and still, ath_pci.o fails to load, and iwconfig fails to connect to the card. I put DSL-1.5 back on the laptop for now. One thing I did not try is to boot from the LiveCD using the modules cheat code with the madwifi.tar.gz modules package in the root of the boot partition. I'll give that a shot later tonight.

As I said before the modules directory on the root of the boot media will not unpack a tar.gz. The madwifi is not an extension. The modules directory will try to insmod the individual modules located there is alphabetic order. If you cannot get the modules to work manually then no point in placing them there.

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