[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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