madwifi in yoper

alFenrir · 12-04-2004, 11:23 PM

Has anyone tried building and installing madwifi on Yoper? If so, did you get it to work?

If you can't guess I'm having a lot of trouble setting it up (It doesn't help that I don't have a non-wireless internet connection available very easily. I'm stuck burning CDs every time I want to transfer something to the Yoper system)

E-man07 · 12-07-2004, 03:18 PM

It works awsome! The guide that I followed was not right, the files were in defferent folders so just watch out for that! Once you have activated the files just reboot and it works great that is how I'm posting this post.

If you have any trouble Email me at E-man07@neo.rr.com

alFenrir · 12-08-2004, 01:48 PM

Great thats good to hear. Do you know where I can find the guide you used (even if its a little off)? I lost track of the one I originally used. Also, if I remember correctly, you need a bit of the distro source code and some things like shareutils to make it build correctly. If that's the case and you had to get these things too, can you tell me where I might be able to find them?

thanks a bunch

E-man07 · 12-08-2004, 04:32 PM

Well first up you need to find what version of the kernel that you are running. For me it is 2.6.8.1-3. Go to http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/y...sion2/RPMS.os/ and download the kernel-2.6.8.1-3.i686.rpm or whatever version of the kernel that you are running from the website. Then download the MadWifi .bz2 file. Untar it into a directery. Then for me i did

Code:

    make

Wait a long time...have you ever wonderd where we come from?

Code:

    insmod net80211/wlan.ko
    insmod ath_hal/ath_hal.ko
    insmod ath/ath_pci.ko

I had a warning but everything was ok.

Code:

    make install

Now you have drivers installed...yay!
Now you need to set up the network.

Code:

    iwconfig

Now the Terminal will print out some thing like this....

Quote:

lo no wireless extensions.

dummy0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:3F:76:A6
Bit Rate:0Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/94 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

That meas that your driver works properly...
Now this is for me soo you will need to mod this
My ESSID is TheHalls...so you will have to change it

Code:

iwconfig ath0 ESSID "TheHalls"

Ok once you have the ESSID set up you will be connected to the router this is very good. Now you need to run dhclient to get an Ip from the router

Code:

dhclient

And bada big bada booom you should be online and chatting! If you need any help just Email me E-man07@neo.rr.com

Cliekid · 12-08-2004, 04:38 PM

Question...

Why not use NDIS Wrapper?

Its pre-installed with Yoper, and it allows you to use your Windows drivers w/ Linux for your Wifi card :-)

-Cliekid

E-man07 · 12-08-2004, 06:06 PM

Well I have a D link g520(?) and I can never find the driver for it and the NDIS Wrapper even though I have the cd... So yea I have to have a different way to hook up to my router. But it was a very easy to install, it just takes a long time to install. Hey I have a question for you, do you program and if so in which lang? How to hear from you soon.

alFenrir · 12-08-2004, 11:04 PM

hey thanks a bunch. I haven't gotten a chance to try it yet but I'll tell you how it works out. Oh and truthfully, the reason I didn't use NDIS wrapper is because I've never actually heard of that before. I'll see if I can get the madwifi working first (because I've had experience with it) then maybe I'll look into it as it sounds pretty interesting.

Cliekid · 12-09-2004, 08:18 AM

I know a few languages...if you were asking me E-man :-)

C mainly, some C++...Python and some other smaller languages I don't know *as* well :P

But yes, I program when I can =P

-Cliekid

E-man07 · 12-09-2004, 09:48 AM

Well I was gettin mad that I could not get a Mac like toolbar to run EVER on any linux os... So I wanted to make a linux program that would create a fake mac toolbar, that someone could program by changing files... do you have any ideas on which lang to use and if you dould like to help me???

E-man07

Cliekid · 12-09-2004, 10:07 AM

If your using KDE...

Then you just need to find a KDE mac-like theme - and yes, I know they exist. :P

-Cliekid

alFenrir · 12-11-2004, 01:44 PM

Thanks, worked like a charm.