Wireless Adapter not Identified after 2days of digging the net

[waterhead]

Thank You.

For the info and your patience. I actually mentioned back a few posts about it possibly using the ath9k driver, and even posted a link for it. I got this info by Googling the PCI ID [168c:002a]. I thought that Madwifi would work for this card, but further research proves me wrong.

Here is the link to the ath9k page again:
ath9k - Linux Wireless

Follow the link under "get the code" to download the driver source files. The latest is the compat-wireless version. This contains all wireless drivers, not just the ath9k.

There are instructions to follow, except don't run the "make uninstall" command. This will remove the drivers that you just installed! It was pretty stupid of them to put that in there, right after the "make install" command. And, you only want to load the ath9k module.

If (when) you get any compile errors, post the first error. I will help you determine the problem. I won't try to compile this driver, because my wireless works just fine (Broadcom) and I don't want to screw it up.

[simetrico]

Hello, I've got the same problem of arabbani trying to build madwifi. :

/home/simetrico/Escritorio/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.c: In function 'ieee80211_pwrsave':
/home/simetrico/Escritorio/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.c:240: error: implicit declaration of function '__skb_append'
make[3]: *** [/home/simetrico/Escritorio/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/simetrico/Escritorio/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/simetrico/Escritorio/madwifi-0.9.4] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

I've got a chipset AR5008 and my wireless is working right now thanks to ath9k driver, but i want to use it in monitor mode so I want to install madwifi.
Maybe this error occurs because of the kernel, I'm new in Linux so I don't know if the following folders should be in /usr/src:

root@simetrico-laptop:/usr/src# dir
linux-headers-2.6.27-9
linux-headers-2.6.27-7		linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic
linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic	nvidia-177.80

I also have this two folders in /lib/modules:

root@simetrico-laptop:/lib/modules# dir
2.6.27-7-generic  2.6.27-9-generic

Thanks.

[waterhead]

You may need to compile the latest version of the driver from the Subversion repository.

UserDocs/GettingMadwifi - madwifi-project.org - Trac

Don't forget to remove and blacklist the ath9k module.

[simetrico]

Hello again,THANK YOU VERY MUCH, IT DID WORK, I've installed the subversion of madwifi from the link you told me UserDocs/GettingMadwifi - madwifi-project.org - Trac and patched it with http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/madwifi-ng-r3745.patch, after that I remove ath9k and make and make install madwifi, rebooted the computer and to put it in monitor mode:

wlanconfig ath0 destroy
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor
iwconfig ath0

[waterhead]

Good to hear that it's working.

I don't believe that you have to do anything for it to create the station mode (sta). But I see that you need to do it for monitor mode.