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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: Nov. 25 2005,16:34

You should be able to use the insert modules even from your home directory. You will probably not need all of those modules. Try using the command insmod

Let us know.

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Posted: Nov. 25 2005,23:10

Quote (roberts @ Nov. 25 2005,11:34)

You should be able to use the insert modules even from your home directory. You will probably not need all of those modules. Try using the command insmod

Let us know.

insmod will insert the module if I include the full path. Some modules were not accepted. The ones that loaded (ath_hal.o and wlan.o) did not drive the AT&T 6700g card anyway, so maybe there has been a project change on the madwifi end of it. (In DSL-1.5 , ath_pci.o was also loaded.) lsmod showed the modules loaded but the card didn't respond. I loaded DSL-1.5 back up and it loads them at boot up and works just fine.

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Posted: Nov. 26 2005,00:26

The main module you need is ath_pci.o, and this has wlan.o as a dependency.

Here's how you can get depmod to work, by making certain files writeable.

sudo su
/etc/init.d/mydsl-install/<mylocation>/madwifi.dsl

cd /lib/modules/2.4.31
cp modules.dep tmp1
cp modules.generic_string tmp2
cp modules.pcimap tmp3
cp modules.isapnpmap tmp4
cp modules.usbmap tmp5
cp modules.parportmap tmp6
cp modules.ieee1394map tmp7
cp modules.pnpbiosmap tmp8
rm -rf modules.dep modules.generic_string modules.pcimap modules.isapnpmap modules.usbmap modules.parportmap modules.ieee1394map modules.pnpbiosmap
mv tmp1 modules.dep
mv tmp2 modules.generic_string
mv tmp3 modules.pcimap
mv tmp4 modules.isapnpmap
mv tmp5 modules.usbmap
mv tmp6 modules.parportmap
mv tmp7 modules.ieee1394map
mv tmp8 modules.pnpbiosmap

Now depmod will work.

An easier option would be ndiswrapper.

roberts

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Posted: Nov. 26 2005,01:25

You should not have to make /lib/modules/2.4.31 area writeable! You should not have to use depmod.

Just like in standard Knoppix you can load modules at boot time via a floppy! So too you can with DSL.

Additionally with DSL you can have your modules loaded more automatic with no floppy by using the modules boot option with the modules in the /modules directory on the root area of the boot media.

I setup this boot option so I could auto load some pctel winmodem.

The madwifi.tar.gz is NOT a mydsl-load extension! It is additional modules only.

doobit

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Posted: Nov. 26 2005,23:09

Robert,
does this /modules directory already exist? I can not find it if it does. I tried making one in the root area of the linux boot partition, and then copy the madwifi.tar.gz file into it, but it did not load on boot up. I will try that again and then put "modules" in the boot options line in menu.lst

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