[CentOS] Lost my madwifi setup
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Jul 16 21:32:46 UTC 2008
Oh, I should add that if I use NetworkManager, it scans the SSID, but
fails to connect.
I personally have had a very high failure rate with NetworkManger.
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I rebuilt my notebook that has the atheros card in it, and forgot to
> save all of my setup to get it working.
>
> I am using dkms and the madwifi rpms from rpmforge.
>
> My modprobe.conf has a line:
>
> alias wifi0 ath_pci
>
> I can ifconfig wifi0 up
>
> But the command:
>
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -dd -D madwifi -i wifi0 -c
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
>
> fails.
>
> Now some of my old notes mention using ath0 and a line in
> modprobe.conf of:
>
> alias ath0 ath_pci
> options ath_pci autocreate=sta
>
> I think there were some iwconfig commands somewhere too. But it is all
> gone....... sniff.
>
> I hope someone can help? I am going through this list's archives
> trying to find my old messages too.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>
More information about the CentOS
mailing list