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

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roberts

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,23:00

I would be most willing to do so.
PM or email me.

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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,19:52

By far the easiest solution to get this card working is by using ndiswrapper. The card's driver can easily be found on the ndiswrapper.souceforge site then as user root using the WinXP Driver

ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid cloudscape
pump -i wlan0

or use the ndiswrapper GUI.

Thanks to doobit for sending me the card for testing.

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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,21:49

I have tried ndiswrapper with it using the control panel interface, and was unable to get it to work. I didn't try to modprobe manually. Anyway, when I get it back, now I know what to do! Thanks Robert for seeing this through!

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Posted: Dec. 21 2005,07:55

As well as wlanconfig, there are some other utilities that come with the new MADWiFi package, namely

80211debug
80211stats
athchans
athctrl
athdebug
athkey
athstats

Perhaps the main driver requires some, or all, of these to be present?

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Posted: Dec. 21 2005,20:22

OK. Great news guys.

I have everything working with the madwifi.tar.gz in a liveCD/frugal environment.

Thanks again to doobit, I have a card to test with.

I will repackage the madwif.tar.gz as a mydsl extension.
I just need to add one script to load (insmod) the modules required and make the ath0 device.

Thanks to those who posted with most all of these steps required to make this all come together.

Then having madwifi.dsl in your mydsl directory will install the all the necessary files and modules at boot time. Or you can download and mydsl-load it as usual.

A setup script will be in the /opt directory. So all one will have to do is add /opt/madwifi_setup.sh to /opt/bootlocal.sh. Then upon further boots the madwifi becomes transparent and works the same way the as before. That is you will be able to use the iwconfig GUI in the control panel, using ath0, and your in business.

Also, as before, you can optionally add the myiwconfig.sh to /opt/bootlocal.sh and .filetool.sh to persist your particular wireless settings.

It is not there yet! I will post this later today in the mydsl testing area. I am going to take a break and celebrate! Then I will make an announcement in the mydsl testting area of the forums when I have it all together.

Thanks again, this was indeed a community process.

Robert

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