You need the wimax network service daemon and the wimax tools to manipulate the wmx0 interface. I do not believe you can use rfkill or any of the 802.11 tools (like iwconfig) to manipulate wmx0.
There are not currently any Ubuntu/Debian packages for these, so you have to install them manually. As I'm sure you have noticed, the linuxwimax.org site is currently down, but for now you can download the necessary software from http://topquark.net/wimax/ (If anyone has a copy of the whole linuxwimax.org site, I would be happy to mirror it until the official site comes back up ... archive.org seems to be missing a lot of stuff, so I can't just scrape it from there) Here are the necessary steps: Check the version of the firmware-intelwimax package you currently have installed. If it is not installed or is older than 0.33, then download and install the latest i2400m firmware: tar -xvjf i2400m-fw-1.5.0.tar.bz2 sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 i2400m-fw-1.5.0/*.sbcf /lib/firmware rm -rf i2400m-fw-1.5.0 Install the pkg-config, libglib2.0-dev, libnl-dev, and libssl-dev packages Download and install the WiMAX Tools: tar -xvzf wimax-tools-1.4.4.tar.gz cd wimax-tools-1.4.4/ ./configure make sudo make install cd .. Download WPA Supplicant (from http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/wpa_supplicant-0.7.2.tar.gz) and the WPA Supplicant patch, then compile and install libeap.so: tar -xvzf wpa_supplicant-0.7.2.tar.gz cd wpa_supplicant-0.7.2/ patch -p1 < ../wpa_supplicant-0.7.2-generate-libeap-peer.patch make -C src/eap_peer sudo make -C src/eap_peer install cd .. rm -rf wpa_supplicant-0.7.2 Download and install the WiMAX Network Service: tar -xvzf wimax-1.5.1.tar.gz cd wimax-1.5.1/ patch -p1 < ../wimax-1.5.1.patch ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc make sudo make install cd .. rm -rf wimax-1.5.1 rm -rf wimax-tools-1.4.4 Optionally uninstall the pkg-config, libglib2.0-dev, libnl-dev, and libssl-dev packages Reboot, so that everything is started up properly wimax_monitor # watch the state of the WiMAX Network Service wimaxcu status # show the current WiMAX status wimaxcu ron # enable the radio wimaxcu scan # scan for networks wimaxcu connect network 2 # connect to a network wimaxcu status # show the status again wimaxcu status link # show the link status wimaxcu status connect # show the connection status wimaxcu connectmode connect auto # configure the device to auto-connect On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:17:21PM -0700, Eric Rasmussen wrote: > I have been trying to remove this soft block for a while now and am not > having any luck. You can read the details in this Ubuntu forum thread: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11209840#post11209840 > > I really need to get this going. Any help would be greatly and appreciated > and passed onto others with my similar situation. > > thx > > ewr > _______________________________________________ > wimax mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxwimax.org/listinfo/wimax _______________________________________________ wimax mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxwimax.org/listinfo/wimax
