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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 770

Madwifi "no such device"

My hard drive bit the dust the other day, so I'm no trying to rebuild my computer with a new one.  I got to the part of the install where I needed to install the base packages and found that my CD was corrupt - so I figured I'd give an ftp install a go...

Having had the foresight to include madwifi on my CD I was able to get the network up and running and got everything very neatly.  I then rebooted and tried to install madwifi - from the very latest packages I could find ( which were newer than the ones used during install - as, obviously, is the kernel).

They installed without problems and I could load the ath_pci module.  The problem is that whenever I try and get the network started I'm told:

ath0: unknown interfave: No Such device

My /etc/conf.d/wireless says:

wlan_ath0="atho mode managed essid <my_essid>"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ath0)

and the relevant part of my rc.conf:

ath0="dhcp"
...
INTERFACES=(lo ath0)

I'm assuming that this may be due to some sort of incompatibility between my kernel version and the version of madwifi I have installed - but they're both the latest...

Am I doomed to wait until there's a new madwifi package - or is there something else that I'm missing...?

phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 770

Re: Madwifi "no such device"

OK - I've discovered that if I omit the countrycode option from the module then it all works - but the docs suggest that this is required. Can anyone shed any light? Am I likely to run into any problems in the medium term..?

Last edited by phunni (2007-05-24 15:25:24)

crc32

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 23

Re: Madwifi "no such device"

Since it was working before you updated it ... my wild guess would be that you didn't install the correct madwifi package.

There are 3 builds of madwifi available
1) madwifi - meant for kernel26
2) madwifi-ck - meant for kernel26ck
3) madwifi-suspend2 - meant for kernel26suspend2

What kernel26 and madwifi flavours do you have installed?

retsaw

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-03-22

Posts: 132

Re: Madwifi "no such device"

I've never used the countrycode option for madwifi and had no problems and I've been using my wifi card for a couple of years now.  What docs suggest that it is required?

jond

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From: Norway

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 13

Re: Madwifi "no such device"

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#madwifi

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