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Hi to all,
I am trying to install madwifi driver for my Atheros wifi PCI adapter card ( pci id 168c:011a) .
I tried it using tar of madwifi-0.9.2.1,tired 'make' ...
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- 12-18-2006 #1Just Joined!
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installing madwifi on Red Hat 2.6.9-5.EL
Hi to all,
I am trying to install madwifi driver for my Atheros wifi PCI adapter card ( pci id 168c:011a) .
I tried it using tar of madwifi-0.9.2.1,tired 'make' and at 'make install' it is giving following log :-
sh scripts/find-madwifi-modules.sh 2.6.9-5.EL
for i in ./ath ath_rate/sample ./net80211; do \
make -C $i install || exit 1; \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/V91SDK/gopal/DOWNLOAD/madwifi-0.9.2.1/ath'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net
cp ath_pci.ko //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net
cp ath_hal.ko //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/V91SDK/gopal/DOWNLOAD/madwifi-0.9.2.1/ath'
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/V91SDK/gopal/DOWNLOAD/madwifi-0.9.2.1/ath_rate/sample'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net
cp ath_rate_sample.ko //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/V91SDK/gopal/DOWNLOAD/madwifi-0.9.2.1/ath_rate/sample'
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/V91SDK/gopal/DOWNLOAD/madwifi-0.9.2.1/net80211'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net
for i in wlan.o wlan_wep.o wlan_tkip.o wlan_ccmp.o wlan_acl.o wlan_xauth.o wlan_scan_sta.o wlan_scan_ap.o; do \
f=`basename $i .o`; \
cp $f.ko //lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net; \
done
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/V91SDK/gopal/DOWNLOAD/madwifi-0.9.2.1/net80211'
(export KMODPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/net; /sbin/depmod -ae)
make -C ./tools install || exit 1
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/V91SDK/gopal/DOWNLOAD/madwifi-0.9.2.1/tools'
install -d /usr/local/bin
for i in athstats 80211stats athkey athchans athctrl athdebug 80211debug wlanconfig; do \
install $i /usr/local/bin/$i; \
strip /usr/local/bin/$i; \
done
install -d /usr/local/man/man8
install -m 0644 man/*.8 /usr/local/man/man8
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/V91SDK/gopal/DOWNLOAD/madwifi-0.9.2.1/tools'
how to check weather it is installed without error.....as i m newbie to wifi terminology.
- 12-23-2006 #2
Congratulations, you successfully installed madwifi. You can tell if it didn't make any errors because it didn't say ERROR at the end.
Now just type in a terminal as rootto load the madwifi driver.Code:modprobe ath_pci


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