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vistor

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Registered: 2007-11-29

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[SOLVED] Atheros AR5007 Madwifi

Hi!

Ive been using ndiswrapper with my AR5007EG card for some time without problems but i wish to be able to capture packets (aircrack etc) and realized there was a quite new madwifi-patch that was supposed to work with my card though I just cant get it to work so I must be doing something wrong.. (?)

patch is here and install instructions at comment #11:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679#comment:11

lspci -nn | grep Atheros returns:

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)

(the 168c:001c indicating that its actually a AR5007G.)

this is what ive done:
1. make sure ive uninstalled old ndiswrapper / madwifi.
2. rmmod ath_hal ath_pci wlan
3. unpack the (http://madwifi.org/changeset/2756) file into ~/tmpmadfifi
4. unpacked the patch and run "patch -p0 < madwifi-ng......"
5. cd scripts -> run the two scripts specified
6. sudo make
7. sudo make install
8. sudo modprobe ath_pci

everything installs without error messages and when i run ifconfig -a nothing turns up. Neither does it turn up after rebooting or adding the countrycode option to modprobe..

Im so stubborn and willing to learn but im really out of ideas now... what am i doing wrong? :rolleyes:

edit: finally solved it by myself... seems I had forgot the (uname -r) part when i ran the ./unload script in the /script dir... silly me :) weee

Last edited by vistor (2008-03-21 03:23:00)

foxbunny

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Registered: 2006-10-31

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Re: [SOLVED] Atheros AR5007 Madwifi

Could you please clarify step 5? I can't seem to find the info at the link you provided. And please give me some more detail on what exactly you did wrong and how you solved it.

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Atheros AR5007 Madwifi

By the way, there are snapshots already patched available here :
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/
(the +ar5007 ones)

I knew about these snapshots before seeing this thread and madwifi ticket 1679.
But these special snapshots are mentioned there :
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679#comment:55

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foxbunny

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Re: [SOLVED] Atheros AR5007 Madwifi

Thanks for the link.

EDIT: Yup, it's working fine.

Last edited by foxbunny (2008-04-10 12:20:36)

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gajo

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Registered: 2008-04-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Atheros AR5007 Madwifi

It seems there is no driver for the 64bit OS, did anyone manage to get a hack perhaps?

toofishes

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Registered: 2006-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Atheros AR5007 Madwifi

I have a PKGBUILD that I use to build it for my eee kernel, since that is the chipset used there. I take the patch and apply it against the latest SVN revision which works quite well:

http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p= … fi-eee-svn