How can I confirm madwifi is installed and operational?

[yulester]

I did the madwifi install which appeared to be good, but I cannot get any indication of a wireless network via ifconfig, iwconfig, wlanconfig.

wicd can's seem to find it either, so I'm kind wondering how I can confirm it's existance within the system.

Proprietary drivers shows HAL, and Support for Atheros as 'in use' which doesn't seem to make a difference if they are enabled or not.

Kinda scratching my head at this point.

Hardy Heron 64 bit - -

[kreggz]

Re: How can I confirm madwifi is installed and operational?

Hi - I am using a Broadcom but I was looking through some other topics.
This one in particular:http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3085408.0

Try

lspci - This will list all your PCI devices

then

lsmod | grep ath_pci - This will show you if the a module is loaded for the atheros device

if its not there try:

sudo modprobe ath_pci

then dmesg to see what happens in your system log.

[yulester]

Re: How can I confirm madwifi is installed and operational?

The lsmod inquiry gives me;

ath_pci 107696 0
wlan 226464 1 ath_pci
ath_hal 220016 1 ath_pci


which would indicate it's there - somewhat.

So where do I go from here??

[dibl]

Re: How can I confirm madwifi is installed and operational?

This works with sidux (a Debian Linux) on my Eee PC -- I dunno if it works the same on *buntu or not:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi

[yulester]

Re: How can I confirm madwifi is installed and operational?

Yikes!!!!!! I think I may have discovered the problem.

dmesg gave me the following line, and it doesn't look good,

34.935920] wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)

So now it looks like I need to determine what needs upgraded.

- - Dave - - What are you doing Dave - - - !!!

[dibl]

Re: How can I confirm madwifi is installed and operational?

That is an ugly bit of news.

The madwifi project reports that the ath5k driver is now ready for prime time. I'm still using the madwifi driver on my Eee PC, but supposedly I could change to ath5k and get equal or better results. I dunno if that would do you any good or not. :P

[yulester]

Re: How can I confirm madwifi is installed and operational?

I tried the ndiswrapper method before withno success, and when I heard mawifi supposedly had the problem solved for 32 and 64 bit, I was hoping it worked.

I went looking for any adept HAL upgrades, and did those, but as of last test, it still doesn't look promising.

Part of the problem may be in the detection of the Atheros chipset by Kubuntu. Under 7.10, it was a AR5006 flavor, Vista shows a AR5007 variation, but under 8.10, it's saying it's a AR24xx set. That alone could be a problem in that HAL can't match the driver to the proper device since it's incorrectly identified.

[dibl]

Re: How can I confirm madwifi is installed and operational?

Yep. AR24x is clearly not AR5000 series -- that might the issue. I dunno if the 8.10 hardware detection is finished or still under development -- it may or may not get better in the released version.