[Gllug] Madwifi drivers

[Huw Lynes]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 01:59, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone here experienced with the madwifi drivers? I've got an Atheros
> 5212 based mini PCI wireless card which I'm trying to drive with little
> success. I've checked out the latest madwifi CVS, and built the
> appropriate modules for them. The modules load successfully:-

Just in case it's any help here is the config file for my atheros card
running in a Fedora Core 3 box using the madwifi drivers.

DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=xxx.xxx.xxx.0
BROADCAST=xxx.xxx.xxx.255
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
MODE=Managed
ESSID=MySSID
KEY=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
CHANNEL=11
RATE=54M

iwconfig looks like this:

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"MySSID"  Nickname:"leviathon.xxx.xxx"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point:
00:0E:6A:D3:E8:DE   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=45/94  Signal level=-50 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:6  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


Loaded kernel modules are:

ath_pci                66088  0 
ath_rate_onoe           9872  1 ath_pci
wlan                  116948  4 wlan_wep,ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe
ath_hal               154864  2 ath_pci


Don't know if that will be any help. It took me most of a day to get it
up and running and I didn't write down the steps I took. My card is a
5212 just like yours so it should work. If you can think of any other
info you might need let me know and I'll pass it on.

Huw

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