[CentOS] Re: Madwifi just seems to work in Centos 5

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Jun 18 15:55:25 UTC 2007


Migration in progress.  But fonts are wrong in Thunderbird....

Andy Green wrote:

> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:03:39AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> I have not installed the madwifi specific kernel stuff (kdml and
>>>> hal-kdml) from atrpms.  I have installed with wpa rpms.
>>>>
>>>> And my Atheros card is working with almost no work on my part (other
>>>> than runing wpa_supplicant as a deamon).
>>>>
>>>> Nice!
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> But how is that supposed to work? Perhaps you don't have an atheros
>>> chipset at all? If you have an atheros chipset then you will need
>>> madwifi/dadwifi and hal/openhal to use it.
>>>       
>> Oh, it is definitely the Atheros chipset.  Given to me by my friends at
>> Atheros at one of the 802.11 meetings over a year ago....
>>     
>
> Well, we'll see... type lspci to hear about the card and lsmod to see
> what modules you have loaded, post the results.
Here is the results from lspci and lsmod.  There is ONE madwifi rpm installed:

madwifi-0.9.2.1-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

and for wpa:

wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.1.fc6.i386.rpm

cat lspci.lst 

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)
00:0b.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:12.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:12.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M

cat lsmod.lst 
Module                  Size  Used by
autofs4                23749  2 
hidp                   23105  2 
rfcomm                 42457  0 
l2cap                  29633  10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth              53925  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                142973  1 
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns     6977  0 
ipt_REJECT              9537  1 
xt_state                6209  3 
ip_conntrack           53153  2 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
nfnetlink              10713  1 ip_conntrack
iptable_filter          7105  1 
ip_tables              17029  1 iptable_filter
ip6t_REJECT             9409  1 
xt_tcpudp               7105  12 
ip6table_filter         6849  1 
ip6_tables             18181  1 ip6table_filter
x_tables               17349  6 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ip6_tables
cpufreq_ondemand       10573  1 
video                  19269  0 
sbs                    18533  0 
i2c_ec                  9025  1 sbs
button                 10705  0 
battery                13637  0 
asus_acpi              19289  0 
ac                      9157  0 
radeon                103905  2 
drm                    65493  3 radeon
ipv6                  250369  19 ip6t_REJECT
lp                     15849  0 
joydev                 13185  0 
snd_ali5451            25165  1 
snd_ac97_codec         87009  1 snd_ali5451
snd_ac97_bus            6337  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           7877  0 
snd_seq_oss            32705  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     11073  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49841  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         11853  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            42849  0 
snd_mixer_oss          19137  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                71621  3 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
wlan_scan_sta          16128  0 
snd_timer              24901  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    51909  11 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              13217  1 snd
pcspkr                  7105  0 
snd_page_alloc         13641  1 snd_pcm
parport_pc             29157  1 
parport                37513  2 lp,parport_pc
ath_pci                86180  0 
ath_rate_sample        16896  1 ath_pci
wlan                  172764  4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
i2c_ali1535            10565  0 
tg3                    99781  0 
i2c_ali15x3            11333  0 
ath_hal               195280  3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
serio_raw              10693  0 
i2c_core               23745  3 i2c_ec,i2c_ali1535,i2c_ali15x3
dm_snapshot            20581  0 
dm_zero                 6209  0 
dm_mirror              29713  0 
dm_mod                 56537  8 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ext3                  123081  3 
jbd                    56553  1 ext3
ehci_hcd               32845  0 
ohci_hcd               23261  0 
uhci_hcd               25421  0 

So stuff is there....






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