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

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doobit

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Posted: Jan. 02 2006,14:45

I don't know about having the wrong madwifi driver.Both worked for my card.
DSL-1.5 had them compiled in the kernel and would load on boot up.
With the new ones, if you put madwifi.dsl from the DSL download site, testing area, into the top of the same partition that DSL is on, then it will unpack the drivers. Then you need to run the script madwifi_setup.sh as root in a terminal. That will load the drivers in the correct order. Then you need to run iwconfig. You can do that from the terminal or from the DSL control panel. After you have it running you can put the lines /opt/madwifi_setup.sh and then /opt/myiwconfig.sh in your /opt/bootlocal.sh script and they will load at bootup just like DSL-1.5 did.

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roberts

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Posted: Jan. 02 2006,20:35

It is much easier to use the madwifi.dsl extension than to use the raw modules and bins of madwifi.tar.gz.

You can find the extension files here.
Be sure to read the info file.

Maybe, I should delete the raw madwifi.tar.gz?

Max

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Posted: Jan. 02 2006,20:48

I think it would cause less confusion...

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Bisirat
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Posted: Jan. 02 2006,21:55

Yeah, the madwifi.dsl has already worked for me but it does not support monitor mode. That is why i need to install from madwifi source (madwifi-cvs-current.tar.gz). But the makefile won't complete because the KERNELPATH is not found. Any ideas where it could be?
usually it should be /usr/src

Bisirat
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Posted: Jan. 04 2006,14:03

ha, i keep on answering my own questions. After a while of research I found out that I need my kernel package because madwifi depends on it during building. DSL doesn't include it in /usr/src because it is a live cd or something. The kernel package is about 37MBs and since I use dial-up I would rather get a precompiled madwifi module (2.4.31). Or does anybody have a madwifi-cvs.dsl? there is a regular madwifi.dsl driver but as i've said before i need a cvs version.

So, if anybody could help me with a madwifi-cvs dsl package, Thanks.

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