Lan Barnes wrote:
I've become completely frustrated with madwifi for wireless. I had it
working with Airlink equipment despite error messages on reset (whatever
that means) with FC3, but upgrading to FC4 broke it completely.
The Madwifi driver seems to be troublesome for many. Apparently, the
driver maintainers are not up to speed some things (Wireless Extensions?)
I have tried every RPM in the known universe; yum; and compiling from
the subversion tip of the project. Several tips.
I have pored over their on-line guide, FAQ, and both lurked and asked on
their mailing list. I have bought (at some expense) D-Link equipment to
see if that helped. It didn't.
I'm using a Netgear WG602v3 Access point with no problems. I tried a
Linksys WRT54 but couldn't get it to work with my existing Netgear
Ethernet router (due to my ignorance, no doubt).
A few questions in random order:
o What kind of output do you get from iwconfig?
o Does the driver load?
o Does the driver recognize the card?
o Any helpful info in Dmesg?
o How is your AP set up? I assume you're not using any encryption in
testing.
o Can you see or connect to anyone else's network?
o What do the GUI tools say (e.g. system-config-network, NetworkManager,
KWifi, etc.)?
Are there any alternatives to madwifi for Linux wireless? What about
that ndiswrapper thingie? Anything else? Any madwifi gurus out there?
<sobs on desk>
Have you looked here?:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
This has a list of lists of Linux-supported wireless cards:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html#whard
Prism chipsets seem to be pretty popular and well supported.
I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in my laptop. But don't bother
looking for it at your local computer shop: it's only available as part
of the Centrino package (although I've read that Intel still makes an
IPW200 card but that it's very scarce).
Ndiswrapper lets you use your native Windows driver in Linux. It's a
last resort solution.
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~DJA.
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