[CentOS] Re: Madwifi just seems to work in Centos 5
Axel Thimm
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Mon Jun 18 16:25:33 UTC 2007
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:22:04PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:55:25AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz 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).
> >>>>>>
> >
> >
> >>Here is the results from lspci and lsmod. There is ONE madwifi rpm
> >>installed:
> >>
> >>madwifi-0.9.2.1-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> >>
> >
> >
> >>ath_pci 86180 0
> >>ath_rate_sample 16896 1 ath_pci
> >>wlan 172764 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
> >>ath_hal 195280 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
> >>
> >
> >So you are obviously using madwifi after all to drive the card. :)
>
> But where did it come from?????
>
> I did not install the kernel driver rpms.
madwifi-0.9.2.1-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm follows a different method that
creates them on your system. There are pros and cons to using prebuilt
binaries vs your own custom kernel modules.
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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