HOWTO: madwifi in FC2 (& FC2T3)

[Picomp314]

First off, I spent many many hours trying to get this to work on my friend's Fujitsu Laptop with his WPC55AG based on the atheros (5212?) chipset. It took a lot of tinkering but I got it to work, and I think those results are reproduceable.

1) (This is extremely crucial and took me awhile to figure out) download and install the sharutils rpm (check to see if you have it installed with rpm -qa | grep shar)

2) Install the kernel-source rpm for your particular kernel

3) Do a cvs checkout of madwifi with the command

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi

4) cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358 (adjust for your particular kernel

5)make oldconfig
make all

6) ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/vmlinux /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build/vmlinux

7)cd into the directory that you did the cvs checkout of madwifi

8)make
make install

9)insmod wlan/wlan.ko
insmod ath_hal/ath_hal.ko
insmod driver/ath_pci.ko

10)ifconfig ath0 up

EDIT:
11)create a file named ifcfg-ath0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
with the contents:
STARTMODE=hotplug
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
WIRELESS=yes
MODE=Managed
ESSID=any
KEY=

12)type ifup ath0

13) good luck...


Hopefully everything is correct

[blahrus]

try this for the cvs build

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi

wierd I guess that is the same thing . . . .

[blahrus]

WAY TO GO Picomp314 IT WORKS

[STiAT]

Thank you

It doesn't work here ...

I've problems compiling madwifi, and get that the opt_ah.h was not found. in compile time. Seems to be incomplete on the CVS at the moment.

I've tried to compile then with the version of madwifi-20030802. This one exits with a Memory Access violation. It seems as some guys have been able to compile this version with gcc32, which is not included in Fedora Core2 anymore...

Not my day

// STi

[Picomp314]

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[STiAT]

I personally installed the sharutils from the FC2 CD3 ...

// STi

[Picomp314]

alright then, can you give the entire output after you issued 'make'??

[STiAT]

Well, here is the output i get from the compile:

for i in ./ath_hal ./wlan ./driver; do \
	(cd $i; make); \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/madwifi-cvs/ath_hal'
uudecode ./../hal/linux/i386-elf.hal.o.uu
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/madwifi-cvs/ath_hal'
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/madwifi-cvs/wlan'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build SUBDIRS=/root/madwifi-cvs/wlan modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
make[2]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/madwifi-cvs/wlan'
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/madwifi-cvs/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build SUBDIRS=/root/madwifi-cvs/driver modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build'
  CC [M]  /root/madwifi-cvs/driver/if_ath_module.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/madwifi-cvs/driver'
uudecode: ./../hal/linux/i386-elf.hal.o.uu: No `end' line
make[1]: *** [hal.o] Error 1
/root/madwifi-cvs/driver/if_ath_module.c:39:20: opt_ah.h: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [/root/madwifi-cvs/driver/if_ath_module.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/root/madwifi-cvs/driver] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

Thank you for your help, Picomp314 ... really nice there are people as you around.

// STi

[Picomp314]

This is extremely unusual, i also tried a cvs checkout on one of my desktops, and it failed with the same error...
I think this must be a bug in the code, hopefully it will be resolved in a couple of days

[STiAT]

Thank you, Picomp314. At least i know now that it definitely is what i already thought ... an error in the code itself.

Hopefully it will be solved soon

// STi

[blahrus]

yayayayay thanks again,

now I just have to ifup ath0 and it goes and does all the work

[STiAT]

hmm blahrus, you still got the files you downloaded from CVS? May you can tar them and put them somewhere? Because the current CVS-Version seems to be broken, and i'd need the files...´

I'd be very thankful...

// STi

[danacook]

Looks like you checked out the code on windows...

try doing a dos2unix on all the files, otherwise
the newlines are screwed up.

[Picomp314]

i just did a new cvs checkout, and i am not getting the problem any longer; also, try doing a make clean just to make sure that you are doing a clean compile

oh yeah
BTW: http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/madwifi/

[STiAT]

I just did a checkout and still get the same error.

I also tried to install the modules from atrpms, some days ago..

The problem there is that i got 3 *.o files in /lib/modules/<kernelverson/updates
but when i insmod them it says "invalid module format".

I dont know how to handle them anyways.

Any further suggestions?

// STi