I just noticed Dan Williams' email with this (more official and up-to-date) link to the software: http://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/inaky/
Instructions are the same, except that you should use the latest versions (wimax-tools-1.4.5 instead of 1.4.4, and wimax-1.5.2 instead of 1.5.1), and you can skip the `patch -p1 < ../wimax-1.5.1.patch` line. On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 09:39:56AM -0400, Paul Donohue wrote: > 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
