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I read some tutorials that said there is a command for madwifi that you can use such as
madwifi ath0
But when I do this it just says the command does not exist, but I do have an intermident wireless connection that fades in and out.. My Question is this, how do I know if I am using the madwifi drivers or are my cards just being recognized automatically.... And if this is the case then why does the madwifi command not work when I try to use it???
I dont know much about these drivers but I am trying to learn
Originally posted by Atrocity I read some tutorials that said there is a command for madwifi that you can use such as
madwifi ath0
But when I do this it just says the command does not exist, but I do have an intermident wireless connection that fades in and out.. My Question is this, how do I know if I am using the madwifi drivers or are my cards just being recognized automatically.... And if this is the case then why does the madwifi command not work when I try to use it???
madwifi is not a command, it's a module, so you would have to install it. This is what you can do (as root):
1. start module-assistant
2. first do update
3. then do prepare
4. then exit the program and run: module-assistant auto-install madwifi
but if you allready have a wlan-connection, why do you want to install madwifi?
Oh I just wanted to know why if I installed it the command didnt work, which you kind of explained, either I dont have the module loaded up or I didnt install the drivers correctly, becuase I am not sure what I am running on the ones that came with slackware or madwifi, I am looking up how to work that module assistant in slackware right now, we will see how it goes
Originally posted by Atrocity Oh I just wanted to know why if I installed it the command didnt work, which you kind of explained, either I dont have the module loaded up or I didnt install the drivers correctly, becuase I am not sure what I am running on the ones that came with slackware or madwifi, I am looking up how to work that module assistant in slackware right now, we will see how it goes
Like I said, madwifi is not a command. It's just a module that you install. I doubt there's different ways to use module-assistant in debian and slackware, so just install it, run it as root and try
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