hello,

I installed newly Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on Acer Aspire One notebook. When I issued the command 'sudo apt-get install madwifi-tools' it returns 'Couldn't find package madwifi-tools'

In software sources, all the options main, universe, restricted, multiverse are checked. Please help me in installing it.

-uv

Maybe there is no need of madwifi (if so, you need to get it from a Debian source, I think) since the corresponding driver (ath5k) is now a (functioning!) part of the Linux kernel.

Hi,

I wanted to use 'wlanconfig'. This is bundled with madwifi-tools. Is there any alternative.

--uv.

Haven't you got the wired and wireless network manager 'wicd' in your repository? I would really recommend it:

"Wicd is a general-purpose network configuration server which aims
to provide a simple but flexible interface for connecting to networks.
Its features include:
wide variety of settings.
* ability to connect to (and maintain profiles for) both wired and wireless networks;
* support for many encryption schemes, including WEP, WPA, WPA2 and custom schemes;
* wireless-tools compatibility;
* tray icon showing network activity and signal strength;
* lack of GNOME dependencies (although it does require GTK+), making it easy to use in Xfce, Fluxbox, Openbox, Enlightenment, etc. "

Actually, I am trying to configure wireshark to sniff wireless packets on acer with ubuntu. For that I requried wlanconfigtool to put the wireless card in monitor mode.

If you have any alternate method of doing it. Please post it.

thanks in advance.

--yuvaraj.