Madwifi for Puppy (wireless)

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Guest · #1 Post by **Guest** » Sat 18 Jun 2005, 12:20

Barry since the athros chipset seems to be common in many 802.11a/b/g Wireless nics would it be possible for these to be included in puppy as a standard and maybe get rid of some the older wireless cards drivers that are there ?

I'm experimenting and have found them to work with
DLINK DWL-G510 PCI card H\W Ver B1 F\W Ver 4.00
DLINK DWL-G630 CardBus (pcmcia) H\W Ver D1 F\W Ver 4.00

The above cards were purchased in Australia so I don't know what Version are being sold Overseas

The beauty of this driver is that you can run it in Master mode (Access Point) and have it bridge a wireless and wired network.

At the moment I have a DWL-G510 running in an old PC bridging as describe above and as a router\firewall for my dial up connection

For bridging to work the Bridge Utils package is required.

BTW: Just tried 1.0.3 and reckon it rocks especially UnionFS for getting the Neomagic card going

BarryK · #2 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 18 Jun 2005, 23:44

umm, so I need to get the driver for the athros chipset from somewhere? do you have a url?

BarryK · #3 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 18 Jun 2005, 23:46

also, could you suggest what old drivers should be removed?
...do to my newness to wireless, I don't know what is old and what is not.

BarryK · #4 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 18 Jun 2005, 23:49

Bladehunter,
what did you do to get your neomagic card working?

Guest · #5 Post by **Guest** » Sun 19 Jun 2005, 07:28

Sorry about that.....

The madwifi site http://madwifi.sourceforge.net

Maybe some of the aironet modules and prism ? As I think most people would have have a pcmcia prism based card.....orr just bump up the size of image.gz, about 1M at most umcompressed (if that)

The Neomagic card ?

When I modded the image.gz file to accommodate the madwifi drivers I modded /etc/profile to not start X on first boot, copied across the framebuffer driver, fonts and I had the libs in my home directory.With unuionfs the required files are there on every boot.

alanrtodduk · #6 Post by **alanrtodduk** » Sun 26 Jun 2005, 15:43

totally new to Linux, but wow, steadily learning. Thanks to Puppy, I have discovered GRUB, and also BOOTPART, and now have 80GB drive with Windows2K Windows XP and THREE Linux partitions. NTLDR boots2K, XP or GRUB which allows further selection, or loop back to nTLDR. (:-)) The Linux Puppy partition is being used more n more as I discover how to do stuff. For internet access (Mozilla Browser) Puppy is working thru my Belkin 7633 onto Virgin Broadband(uk) using 3COM NIC card; but I have three other older PCs with Belkin USB 802.11G adapters; is anyone out there making Puppy work with Belkin USB wireless adapter 7050 ?? I would really like to learn how to cross that hurdle... only using WEP 64.. ?? thanks alanrtodduk@virgin.net

Guest · #7 Post by **Guest** » Tue 28 Jun 2005, 07:08

Your card "should" work with ndiswrapper

Check this out
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/NdiswrapperPuppy

All the info is there

edoc · #8 Post by **edoc** » Fri 26 May 2006, 22:47

Anonymous wrote: The madwifi site http://madwifi.sourceforge.net

I have acquired a Proxim PCMCIA wireless card and understand from the
Forum that I should use the native Linux MadWifi drivers.

Has a DotPup been made for MadWifi and Puppy?

This is another in my several years old multi-distro effort to find a wireless
nic that will run on this laptop with native Linux drivers.

Thanks! doc

BlackAdder · #9 Post by **BlackAdder** » Fri 26 May 2006, 23:47

edoc,
Look at the madwifi items created by tempestuous at: http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/
Not strictly a dot pup, but should be no problem to install and use.

edoc · #10 Post by **edoc** » Sat 27 May 2006, 00:47

BlackAdder wrote:edoc,
Look at the madwifi items created by tempestuous at: http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/
Not strictly a dot pup, but should be no problem to install and use.

I went there and after reading the README downloaded and unzipped
0.13e

[ ] orinoco-0.13e-patched.tar.gz 17-Mar-2006 10:07 43K
[ ] orinoco-0.15rc2.tar.gz 17-Mar-2006 10:07 183K
[TXT] orinoco-connect 17-Mar-2006 10:07 820
[TXT] orinoco_README 17-Mar-2006 10:07 4.1K

I then tried to open it with PupGet as an Alien but no joy.

How should I open this, please?

Thanks! doc

BlackAdder · #11 Post by **BlackAdder** » Sat 27 May 2006, 01:45

edoc,
I thought that you wanted to install the madwifi driver. Instructions for install are contained in the readme file madwifi-ng_README . Just click on that file and read the instructions. The correct file to download and extract for madwifi is madwifi-ng.tar.gz .

edoc · #12 Post by **edoc** » Sat 27 May 2006, 02:32

BlackAdder wrote:edoc,
I thought that you wanted to install the madwifi driver. Instructions for install are contained in the readme file madwifi-ng_README . Just click on that file and read the instructions. The correct file to download and extract for madwifi is madwifi-ng.tar.gz .

Sorry, my dumb pill. Saw all of the device-specific drivers and thought
you were suggesting I might use those instead!

Anyhow ... I downloaded madwifi-ng.tar.gz and followed the
uncompression step. Good that far ...

# tar -zxvf madwifi-ng.tar.gz
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_hal.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_pci.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_rate_sample.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_acl.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_ccmp.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_scan_ap.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_scan_sta.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_tkip.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_wep.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_xauth.o
./usr/local/bin/80211debug
./usr/local/bin/80211stats
./usr/local/bin/athchans
./usr/local/bin/athctrl
./usr/local/bin/athdebug
./usr/local/bin/athkey
./usr/local/bin/athstats
./usr/local/bin/wlanconfig

then ...

# depmod
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/zd1211/zd1211.o

# modprobe ath_pci
modprobe: Can't locate module ath_pci

Now what, please?

Thanks! doc

BlackAdder · #13 Post by **BlackAdder** » Sat 27 May 2006, 03:50

Did you perhaps miss the

Code: Select all

cd /

step at the beginning. Others have in the past, and got similar errors. If it is missed, the files do not get expanded into the correct place.

If the module ath_pci is not in the library

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/lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/

then the files have not been expanded to the correct place.

tempestuous · #14 Post by **tempestuous** » Sat 27 May 2006, 11:11

edoc,
Proxim, like most wifi manuafacturers, uses different chipsets in different models.
You need to positively identify your chipset - by model number or manf-id number. See here http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part ... ame=Proxim

... and by the way, I'm about to package a Linux wifi driver for Marvell chipsets for Puppy2.

edoc · #15 Post by **edoc** » Sun 28 May 2006, 00:22

BlackAdder wrote:Did you perhaps miss the
Code: Select all
cd /
step at the beginning. Others have in the past, and got similar errors. If it is missed, the files do not get expanded into the correct place.

If the module ath_pci is not in the library
Code: Select all
/lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/
then the files have not been expanded to the correct place.

I placed the compressed file in root and opened xterm in root.

Would that not do the same thing as cd/?

doc

edoc · #16 Post by **edoc** » Sun 28 May 2006, 02:28

tempestuous wrote:edoc,
Proxim, like most wifi manuafacturers, uses different chipsets in different models.
You need to positively identify your chipset - by model number or manf-id number. See here http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part ... ame=Proxim

Looks promising ... mine is the 8480-WD which elsewhere is said to be
compatible.

802.11a/g 8480 Cardbus Atheros Mad WiFi yellow Gold card; 152-bit WEP; 60-85 mW outp. power; driver available at: http://madwifi.org

tempestuous wrote:... and by the way, I'm about to package a Linux wifi driver for Marvell chipsets for Puppy2.

As I recall that should work with the TRENDnet TEW-423PI pci wireless cards? Should it also work with the Buffalo g54 pcmcia or is that something else entirely?

Thanks! doc

tempestuous · #17 Post by **tempestuous** » Mon 29 May 2006, 14:19

OK, you definitely have an Atheros chipset.

edoc wrote:I placed the compressed file in root and opened xterm in root.
Would that not do the same thing as cd/?

No. Do this -

cd /
tar -zxvf /root/madwifi-ng.tar.gz

TRENDnet TEW-423PI (rev 03) = Marvell
Buffalo cardbus G54 = Broadcom or TexasInstruments or INPROCOMM, depending on the exact model.

edoc · #18 Post by **edoc** » Thu 01 Jun 2006, 02:47

tempestuous wrote:OK, you definitely have an Atheros chipset.
edoc wrote:I placed the compressed file in root and opened xterm in root.
Would that not do the same thing as cd/?
No. Do this -

cd /
tar -zxvf /root/madwifi-ng.tar.gz

TRENDnet TEW-423PI (rev 03) = Marvell
Buffalo cardbus G54 = Broadcom or TexasInstruments or INPROCOMM, depending on the exact model.

I copied madwifi-ng.tar.gz to cd /

Then tried again but the same result:

# tar -zxvf /root/madwifi-ng.tar.gz
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_hal.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_pci.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_rate_sample.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_acl.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_ccmp.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_scan_ap.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_scan_sta.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_tkip.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_wep.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan_xauth.o
./usr/local/bin/80211debug
./usr/local/bin/80211stats
./usr/local/bin/athchans
./usr/local/bin/athctrl
./usr/local/bin/athdebug
./usr/local/bin/athkey
./usr/local/bin/athstats
./usr/local/bin/wlanconfig
# depmod
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/zd1211/zd1211.o
#

;-( doc

tempestuous · #19 Post by **tempestuous** » Sat 03 Jun 2006, 01:10

You seem a little confused about command line usage, but ultimately, this looks good.
Don't worry about the error message for the zd1211.o module (you obviously installed this Zydas driver at an earlier stage), just continue with the MADWiFi instructions.

edoc · #20 Post by **edoc** » Sat 03 Jun 2006, 03:58

tempestuous wrote:You seem a little confused about command line usage, but ultimately, this looks good.
Don't worry about the error message for the zd1211.o module (you obviously installed this Zydas driver at an earlier stage), just continue with the MADWiFi instructions.

More interesting warnings ...

# modprobe ath_pci
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_hal.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Module ath_hal loaded, with warnings
Module wlan loaded, with warnings
Module ath_rate_sample loaded, with warnings
Module ath_pci loaded, with warnings
#
# /usr/local/bin/wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
#

??? doc

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