hey guys, i am running Backtrack Linux. i pretty much tried every madwifi driver there is possible and i cannot get my card recognized. i tared the madwifi package and i did make && make install and it does it right. and then i reboot, i run modprobe ath_pci, and nothing happens. and when i do the wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 sta, it says no such device. need help if possible. thanks

Just to make sure of a few things.
Is there any error when you do modprobe command?
If not then the rest probalbly can be skipped.

Which kernel do you have?
Do you have the kernel-devel installed?
This is the rpm of the kernel source. Madwifi requires a copy of your current kernel source installed to compile madwifi.
Only reason I ask is you do make && make install. I would do make by itself. Also when you do the make install you are doing that one as root?
Module will located in your modules of matching kernel value. /lib/modules/2.6.16/net
Do these exist there. The 2.6.16 may differ on yours.
file:///lib/modules/2.6.16/net/ath_hal.ko
file:///lib/modules/2.6.16/net/ath_pci.ko
file:///lib/modules/2.6.16/net/ath_rate_sample.ko

Brian1

eject the card and reinsert it once or twice <don't remove ath_pci>

aite guys, i have tryed to reinsert the card about 4 times and still nothing. my kernel is 2.6.12.2. i am using backtrack linux which is based off of slax. i checked to see if the modules are in /lib/modules/2.6.12.2/net and ath_hal.ko, ath_pci.ko, and ath_reate_sample.ko are in there along with 20 other modules. i used make && make install method and it didnt seem like any errors. PLEASE HELP. i need this to work by the end of this week. also, once i do get this to work, do i need to patch it to inject packets???

Never used that distro so I do not what the networking tools are like. Have you tried setting up the interface using the ifconfig and iwconfig commands?

Run the command as root ' /sbin/ifconfig -a '

Brian1

when you plug in the card, one of the leds are supposed to blick once quickly every 2 secs or so. When you see that hardware is aware of the device. Then you modprobe ath_pci