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« on: August 03, 2008, 08:43:16 am » |
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According to Gslapt, madwifi is already installed on this version of VL 5.9 Standard. How do I activiate it?
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« Last Edit: August 05, 2008, 03:52:15 pm by Martin109 »
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caitlyn
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« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 10:44:37 pm » |
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It should be activated automatically at boot if the Atheros based wireless card is detected. To check if it is at the command line type: lsmod | grep ath If the driver is loaded you should get a result like this: root:# lsmod | grep ath
ath_rate_sample 13952 1
ath_pci 104360 0
wlan 197168 5 wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 231776 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
If not then let us know the specifics of your card and the version of VL you are running and someone (maybe me, maybe not) can help you do some troubleshooting. |
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Martin109
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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2008, 11:21:49 pm » |
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Thanks Caitlyn. That's produced results! - ath_rate_sample 13184 1
ath_pci 89504 0
wlan 192964 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 190672 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
What do I do next? |
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2008, 04:25:15 am » |
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Martin109
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« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2008, 11:18:34 am » |
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Thanks, bigpaws! That's clearly tailor-made for a newbie like me.  |
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Martin109
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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2008, 01:57:05 pm » |
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Right! I've now got wireless working, At least on an open AP for now. The commands that get it going are: ifconfig ath0 up
modprobe wlan_scan_sta
iwconfig ath0 ap 00:1b:2f:71:09:98
dhcpcd ath0
How do I automate these, so that wireless comes on automatically on booting? |
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« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2008, 02:23:15 pm » |
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Hi Martin109:
Put:
ifconfig ath0 up
modprobe wlan_scan_sta
iwconfig ath0 ap 00:1b:2f:71:09:98
dhcpcd ath0
Into /etc/init.d/rc.local or create a script and point to it from /etc/init.d/rc.local
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Martin109
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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2008, 03:38:05 pm » |
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Hi Martin109:
Put:
ifconfig ath0 up
modprobe wlan_scan_sta
iwconfig ath0 ap 00:1b:2f:71:09:98
dhcpcd ath0
Into /etc/init.d/rc.local or create a script and point to it from /etc/init.d/rc.local
Hi nightshift. File rc.local does not seem to exist! in /etc/init.d, I only have one file called 'wifi-radar'. Should I create rc.local? EDIT: Found it in /etc/rc.d ! |
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« Last Edit: August 05, 2008, 03:42:05 pm by Martin109 »
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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2008, 03:43:43 pm » |
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Vector uses /etc/rc.d/rc.local, use that file instead.
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Martin109
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« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2008, 03:51:54 pm » |
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Thanks everyone, got that working now.
Working on WPA-PSK and having some problems - will start new thread.
Many thanks.
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