DJA wrote:
rbw wrote:
DJA wrote:
rbw wrote:
Led me to kludge together a shell script like so:
#!/bin/sh
#
rm -f /var/run/wpa_supplicant/*
sleep 1
#/sbin/lsmod|grep ath
sleep 1
/sbin/iwconfig ath0 essid "acme" channel 11
/sbin/ifconfig ath0 192.168.31.165 up
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dmadwifi -iath0
This should be -Dwext-----------^
The Wpa_supplicant, NetworkManager, etc. maintainers keep jumping
all over the Madwifi maintainers for not keeping up. Wireless
Extensions is now the standard and drivers not supporting it are now
being pretty much ignored by the rest of the wireless apps.
Yeah that's how I read things too but the -Dwext bombed and the very
first time I ran it as "-Dmadwifi" it worked so I kept moving...
Here is the line I worked from:
/usr/local/bin/wpa_supplicant -dd -Dmadwifi -iath0
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
And here is the instruction page I worked from:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/WPA_PSK_on_Both_Ends
One of the things I ran into (as everyone does I guess) is that the
various pieces of what works are in various locations and refer to
each other from various POV and emphasis. This page did the most to
get me up and helped me pull together other things I read on the way
to getting to this page.
I'm trying to stick and move from one stable and predictable set of
.conf files to the next. Do you have any links for the -Dwext
invocation as this link invokes -Dmadwifi ? Let me know whenever you
run across something like that again.
TIA!
;^)
rbw
You're using the madwifi-ng driver right? If I'm not mistaken, I think
that is the only driver that works properly with the latest wifi tools.
I saw that too and I need to dig to see what I have is the same but I
was expecting to see madwifi-ng, but what I have doesn't indicate the
"ng" part:
$ rpm -qa|grep madwifi
madwifi-0.9.2.1-1.lvn6
kmod-madwifi-0.9.2.1-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6
madwifi-devel-0.9.2.1-1.lvn6
As you can see I got mine from the Livna repository. Core, Extras,
Updates, and Livna and all the repos that go with them are the only
repos I have used so far. And BTW so far all my multimedia stuff has
come back under fc6 (flac, mp3, etc.)
BTW, you need to make sure that Wireless Extensions is installed,
which if you are using a major distro, probably is.
This is FC6 so it has:
$ rpm -qa|grep wireless
wireless-tools-devel-28-1.fc6
wireless-tools-28-1.fc6
rbw
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