murphman9

Well first up you need to find what version of the kernel that you are running. For me it is 2.6.8.1-3. Go to ftp://www.yoper.com/yoper/version2/RPMS.os/ and download the kernel-2.6.8.1-3.i686.rpm or whatever version of the kernel that you are running from the website. Then download the MadWifi .bz2 file. Untar it into a directery. Then for me i did make Wait a long time...have you ever wonderd where we come from? You may not need to do the next step with the new one.. insmod net80211/wlan.ko insmod ath_hal/ath_hal.ko insmod ath/ath_pci.ko I had a warning but everything was ok. make install Or for the new one you may want to do this modprobe ath_pci Now you have drivers installed...yay! Now you need to set up the network. iwconfig Now the Terminal will print out some thing like this.... quote:lo no wireless extensions. dummy0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:3F:76:A6 Bit Rate:0Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0/94 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 That meas that your driver works properly... Now this is for me soo you will need to mod this My ESSID is TheHalls...so you will have to change it iwconfig ath0 ESSID "TheHalls" Ok once you have the ESSID set up you will be connected to the router this is very good. Now you need to run dhclient to get an Ip from the router dhclient And bada big bada booom you should be online and chatting! If you need any help just Email me E-man07@neo.rr.com

wow, i got it, i have no idea how, but i just found this site on the internet and it worked, maybe i did something wrong before, anyways. if anyone has any problems i paste what i found http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=5443

the readme only suggest modprobe ath_pci when i do that i get the error Warning: Error inserting ath_hal (/lib/modules/2.6.10-22murph/net/ath_hal.ko): unknown symbol in module or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Fatal: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.10-22murph/net/ath_pci.ko): unknown symbol in module or unknown parameter (see dmesg) in dmesg it says ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: Uknown symbol ath_hal_wait ath_hal: Uknown symbol ath_hal_version ath_hal: Uknown symbol ath_hal_buildopts wlan:0.8.4.5 (Experimental) ath_rate_onoe: 1.0 ath_pci: Uknown symbol _ath_hal_attach ath_pci: Uknown symbol ath_hal_computetxtime ath_pci: Uknown symbol ath_hal_mhz2ieee ath_pci: Uknown symbol ath_hal_detach ath_pci: Uknown symbol ath_hal_probe ath_pci: Uknown symbol ath_hal_init_channels ath_pci: Uknown symbol ath_hal_getwirelessmodes ath_pci: Uknown symbol ath_hal_wait

the only place i could find those files was /lib/modules/2.6.10-22murph/net but every time i try it it says cp: cannot stat `ath_pci.ko' : no such file or directory and the file is there and it is .ko

well, i installed 2.6.10 kernel, does that still mean i need the rpms? i didn't think i should

are there mdk packages?

can someone help me please?

heres what it says, ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel ath_hal: Unknown symbol ath_hal_wait ath_hal: Unknown symbol ath_hal_version ath_hal: Unknown symbol ath_hal_buildopts wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL) aht_rate_onoe: 1.0 ath_pci: Unknown symbol _ath_hal_attach ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_computetxttime ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_mz2ieee ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_detach ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_probe ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_init_channels ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_getwirelessmodes

ok, i did the make first, like before, it looks like it completes, but a few times while it's running it says MODPOST, then theres an error Warning and then it says something about ath_hal_xxx ............................../ath_hal/ath_hal.ko undefined (thats not the whole error but i don't really feel like typing out the whole thing then i do make install has the same warnings and modpost, which i don't know if thats a command but i tried running modpost and it didn't work and when i run modprobe ath_pci and it says WARNING: Error inserting ath_hal .......unknown symbol in module or unknown paramater (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci .......unknown symbol in module or unknown paramater (see dmesg) so that can't be good ok, and i have 2.6.10 kernel installed, i checked the madwifi site and it says their current version supports it so that shouldn't be a problem, the source is installed on the computer and i'm pretty sure that the make file finds the source automatically since during the make it says entering directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.10

ok, i have it installed now, i'm just not sure how to configure it, could someone show me? or link some instructions. i've tried to add a wireless network connection in mandrake control center but something just flashes quickly and dissapears and i'm back to the option load manual driver. it's like it doesn't want to add that or it's not recognizing the device. although it is recognizing it in hardware. two appear under ethernetcard RTL-8139 and AR5213 802.11g Wireless adapter (the one i'm trying to get to work) i have tried everything with rtl-8139 it configured it upon install but it does not run. so i'm pretty sure it's the other that has the problem. o yea and i'm running this on a desktop, not a laptop. this is probably a result of missing a step, but when i try to configure the module it says Paramaters none. that can't be right can it?

eh, just ignore all that, i figured out how to install 2.6.10

ok, i got that, i'm pretty sure i have the make file setup correctly, once i ran it heres what happened. i'm just going to put the errors since i'm typing this all out if_ath.c: In function 'ath_beacon_tasklist': if_atg.c:1070:warning: implicit declaration of function 'pci_dma_sync_single' if_ath.c: In function 'ath_sysctl_stats': if_ath.c:2516: error: too few arguments to function 'proc_dostring' if_ath.c: In function 'ath_sysctl_handler': if_ath.c:2527: error: too few arguments to function 'proc_dointvec' if_ath.c: In function 'ath_sysctl_dump': if_ath.c:2552: error: too few arguments to function 'proc_dostring' if_ath.c: At top level: if_ath.c:2587: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type if_ath.c:2589: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type if_ath.c:2591: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type if_ath.c:2593: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type if_ath.c:2595: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type if_ath.c:2597: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type if_ath.c:2599: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type if_ath.c:2601: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type if_ath.c:2603: warning: initialization from incompatable pointer type make[1]: *** [if_ath.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/brian/Desktop/madwifi/driver' make: *** [all] Error 2

ok, i figured out the real command, urpmi kernel-srouce-2.6.8.1.10mdk.i586.rpm but when i type it in it gives me a different error insead of package not found it says error registering local packages

hey, i need help installing the kernel source, or finding it. I've been trying for the past few days to install madwifi for my wl-8310 wireless card but i haven't been able to since the kernel source isn't there. I read some other articles and people said to type urpmi kernel-source i did that and it says "no package named kernel-source" someone else said to install it from mandrake control center i searched for the kernel and was only able to find kernel-enterprize-2.3.4.27.0.pre2.1mdk-1-mdk and kernel-i586-1GB-2.6.7.1.10mdk-1-1mdk how else would i do it? can i download it somewhere? thanks

is there any specific place i should put it when i untar it?