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cambiogris

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 5

Can anyone help me setting up madwifi?

Well, I've managed to get most things working on my laptop by myself thus far, but wireless is confusing me. I am using a Toshiba Satellite A75-S226 with an Atheros chipset. I want to be able to use KNetworkManager and WPA. Any help would be much appreciated, as I couldn't figure this out at all. Here's some basic info:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:3F:D4:7D:9A
          inet addr:169.254.141.242  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:3fff:fed4:7d9a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1600 (1.5 Kb)  TX bytes:1980 (1.9 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2800

eth1      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-02-3F-45-56-40-4E-6F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1000 (1000.0 b)  TX bytes:1000 (1000.0 b)

# NETWORKING
HOSTNAME="movilidad"
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
ath0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 !ath0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

I have ath_pci under MODULES.
I have dhcbd and networkmanager in DAEMONS.

Fatsobob

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From: Colorado

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 126

Re: Can anyone help me setting up madwifi?

Atheros uses ath0 extension for wireless.
Did you install the madwifi drivers and then did you setup your rc.conf and your /etc/conf.d/wireless properly.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless
I suggest using standard network before using network manager. Also when you  do switch to network manager that you don't have the standard network daemon enabled, that messes with it.
heres my rc.conf to help you out a little with this.
http://pastebin.archlinux.org/3776
and heres my wireless config(Modified a little as to not give away my network info)
http://pastebin.archlinux.org/3777

Last edited by Fatsobob (2007-06-03 16:14:53)

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Can anyone help me setting up madwifi?

I just installed madwifi and put this in my rc.conf:

ath0="ath0 192.###.###.### netmask 255.###.###.### broadcast 192.###.###.###"
wlan_ath0="ath0 essid R###L key 3###############E"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ath0)
INTERFACES=(lo ath0)
gateway="default gw 192.###.###.###"
ROUTES=(gateway)

And fill in your numbers instead of the hashes.

cambiogris

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 5

Re: Can anyone help me setting up madwifi?

None of it's really seeming to be working, shouldn't I have an ath0 instead of an eth1? I did install the madwifi modules...

cambiogris

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 5

Re: Can anyone help me setting up madwifi?

Bump, just wondering if anyone has any other suggestions. This is the only thing preventing me from fully switching!

Should I try ndiswrapper instead? I've searched some more and read about lots of madwifi breakage.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Can anyone help me setting up madwifi?

Do you know what chipset you have? If it's AR5007EG, then you (currently) have to use ndiswrapper. IIRC there's also one other chipset that needs ndiswrapper, the other Atheros ones all work with madwifi.

(And note that I'm not yet entirely sure that mine is working right...)

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2007-06-08 03:16:16)

cambiogris

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 5

Re: Can anyone help me setting up madwifi?

I believe it's an AR5004G. But I just got it working great with ndiswrapper! A little bit of messing about in rc.conf and some thinking, and I got KNetworkManager to work with it as well. It looks like Arch is staying for good.