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Topic: madwifi.tar.gz, can't get it to load in a Frugal install

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Max

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Posted: Dec. 14 2005,13:25

No I haven't got it working yet and I've spent way to many hours trying all kinds of permutations and searching hundreds of posts. It's unfortunate, as my "top of the line" Thinkpad can't use it's built-in atheros wireless any more. It always *smarts* a little more when you had something working perfectly well and then it's pulled from a subsequent kernel version. Who knows, maybe they'll decide to put it back in later.

I've been running DSL on this notebook since version 0.8 something, but it looks like I'm now stuck at 1.5. Without wireless, I'm going to have to start looking for another distro. I really loved DSL because I was very happy using (and tweaking) a single distro on both my low and high end machines. Guess I'll try Puppy or Ubuntu. Even found a UbuntuLite version.

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Posted: Dec. 14 2005,16:17

Same here. I went back to 1.5 for a while, but I really like the other changes in DSL-2.1, so I'm hoping to somehow make this work. I've even tried copying the modules from 1.5 and putting them in /modules in 2.1. If I get it working, I will post.

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,02:13

I think I may go buy a compatible card because I can't get ath_pci to load properly. Madwifi Wiki says it loads with modprobe, but I keep getting some version of the "not found" error.

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,20:09

My card is a mini-PCI located above the mobo with the antenna around the screen. I don't really feel like having two cards running...

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doobit

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,20:56

That's understandable. I have heard here on the board that some have gotton other Atheros based cards (like the D-link) working with NDiswrapper just using the control panel interface. I tried that too, but it wouldn't work for me. I may mail my card to Robert or John to see if they can get it going, that is, if they are willing.

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