Hey guys,

Just trying to configure Wifi. I've installed 10.1 then installed the 2.6 kernel from the testing/packages/linux-2.6.10 directory. I am using madwifi (as I have found ndiswrapper a little flakey at times).

iwconfig outputs the following:
l0 : no wireless extensions
eth0: no wireless extensions
sit0: no wireless extensions

Were is wlan0? I tried modprobing it to find an error saying FATAL: module wlan0 does not exist (or something similar). As for ath0, it compiles okay but doesn't load at boot. Any ideas? Add them to modules.conf?

Thanks heaps.

Put a line like this in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules or rc.local:

/sbin/modprobe ath_pci

I also set up my card by in rc.local with:

/sbin/iwconfig ath0 essid "accesspointname" key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
/sbin/ifconfig ath0 up
/sbin/dhcpcd ath0

Thanks, will try it.

Also, do you know how to get wlan0 up?

sorry, no

Have you installed madwifi since updating the kernel? On my laptop (Atheros chipset branded as a D-Link DWL-G650), I just had to install the drivers and make sure that hotplug was on. If the card's plugged in at boot time, device ath0 is automatically loaded, with no configuration changes needed at all.

Can you please type please post the output.

You need to reinstall madwifi after updating kernel. Just do a make and make install again.

To clear things up: I have never got Madwifi working at all with 2.4.26 kernel or the 2.6.10 kernel. The problem is purely to do with not being able to get ath0 up.

I did a fresh Slackware install today. I have compliled a 2.6.10 kernel with all the options needed to support madwifi:

* Loadable module support → Module versioning support: disabled
* Device Drivers → Networking support → Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) → Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions: enabled
* Cryptographic options → Cryptographic API: enabled
* Cryptographic options → Cryptographic API → HMAC support: enabled

After compiling the new kernel, I compiled the Madwifi drivers perfectly (with no warnings). After a make and a make install I did the following:
/sbin/modprobe wlan
/sbin/modprobe ath_hal
/sbin/modprobe ath_pci
These also modprobed with no errors.

Now I try iwconfig and and get the following:
l0 : no wireless extensions
eth0: no wireless extensions

I tried an ifconfig -a and it only outputted information for l0 and eth0. So there is no wlan0 or ath0.

I have spend more than two weeks trying to get this working, and all it has got me is very frustrated. I think I just may have to use Windows for the meantime...

Thanks to all that tried.
Adam

Did you reboot after installing the madwifi drivers, and is hotplug enabled?

Also, what kind of card is it? Is it PCMCIA or PCI? If it's PCMCIA, did you remember support for it in the kernel? Is rc.pcmcia running at startup?

go to your madwifi dir and make and make install. Only modprobe ath_pci

I did reboot after Madwifi was installed and HotPlug is enabled.

My card is a D-link DWL-G520+ PCI wireless network card 802.11G (54Mbps). My soundcard is working properly, so I know PCI support in the kernel is okay. The card is also listed when i do a lspci.

I removed the Madwifi modules and did a make && make install. I then modprobed ath_pci only and it made no difference. alias ath0 ath_pci is also present in /etc/modporbe.conf and /etc/modules.conf.

Thanks again, but no difference. I guess if I can somehow get wlan0 working, I may use ndiswrapper.

i'm using linux-wlan-ng with a d-link dwl-122
works fine under 2.6.7
haven't gotten it to work for 2.6.10
haven't tried 2.6.11 yet

Perhaps these Madwifi instructions for Slackware will help.