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Meikj

Member

From: Glasgow

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 21

Wireless broke after updates

Hi again.

I got Arch Linux up and running yesterday and managed to setup my wireless adapter successfully. I installed the madwifi driver and used wpa_supplicant for the WPA-PSK key. Everything was fine until I fully updated the system. A new kernel, a new version of madwifi and a new version of wpa_supplicant were installed, aswell as many other packages. But when I type in:

wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dmadwifi -iath0

It throws back an error saying that madwifi is an unsupported driver. I even tried modprobe'ing the ath_pci module but it still isn't working. Is wpa_supplicant no longer compatible with madwifi?

Thanks.

jacko

Member

Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Wireless broke after updates

What's wrong with the atheros drivers in the kernel?

Ath5k or ath9k. As I stated in another thread. Atheros support has been spectacular since .29 kernel releases. Atheros has a paid developer, developing for the linux kernel.
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k