Madwifi for Puppy (wireless)

[edoc]

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

... 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]

OK, you definitely have an Atheros chipset.

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]

OK, you definitely have an Atheros chipset.

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]

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]

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

[tempestuous]

The driver is not creating an interface, it's not working.
At http://linux-wless.passys.nl your model's compatibility status is "yellow".

You could try Puppy2 with MADWiFi ... it will be available in just a day or two.

[edoc]

The driver is not creating an interface, it's not working.
At http://linux-wless.passys.nl your model's compatibility status is "yellow".

You could try Puppy2 with MADWiFi ... it will be available in just a day or two.

The recently released Puppy 2.0 is being re-released with MADWiFi or is someone making a specialized version?

doc

[akilan]

I preface this with the fact that i am totally new to linux. i have puppy 1.08
installed on an old p3 700mhz laptop with 256mb ram. i have an AIRLINK 101 PCMIA wireless card that uses the atheros chipset.

i downloaded the madwifi driver the root folder.

i clicked on it and it expanded the folder into many files.

then in the terminal, i typed
# depmod

this returned an error:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/vlaudiocombo.o.gz

# iwconfig returns

lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions

# modprobe ath_pci returns
modprobe: Can't locate module ath_pci

I know it is frustrating to you all and that it is has been talked about, but I just can't get it to work and I don't really understand everything that has been said. I went to the instructions for madwifi on sourceforge but i don't understand them.

I hope that someone would be so kind as to post or direct me to a set of directions that tells you exactly what to type and where.

Thanks in advance.

[jb007]

I preface this with the fact that i am totally new to linux. i have puppy 1.08
installed on an old p3 700mhz laptop with 256mb ram. i have an AIRLINK 101 PCMIA wireless card that uses the atheros chipset.

i downloaded the madwifi driver the root folder.

i clicked on it and it expanded the folder into many files.

then in the terminal, i typed
# depmod

this returned an error:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/vlaudiocombo.o.gz

# iwconfig returns

lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions

# modprobe ath_pci returns
modprobe: Can't locate module ath_pci

I know it is frustrating to you all and that it is has been talked about, but I just can't get it to work and I don't really understand everything that has been said. I went to the instructions for madwifi on sourceforge but i don't understand them.

I hope that someone would be so kind as to post or direct me to a set of directions that tells you exactly what to type and where.

Thanks in advance.

I ran into the same error when tried to config the Airlink AWLH-4030 PCI desktop version for v1.0.8r1 & v1.0.9. I ended up playing around with the MADWIFI and WAG and it seems to work fine. It may be best to upgrade to V2.0X. The wifi wizzard works well after install Madwifi-ng-r1545.pup. Sorry.. I didn't remember the step-by-step. Good luck! Please post it here if you get working with the PCMIA version.

update:
There is new release of Madwifi version, which support more atheros chipset (pci and mini carbus). Link http://www.dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/wireless-drivers/