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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:49:05 -0700
From: Nathan Angelacos <nangel@nothome.org>
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To: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Atheros Wifi
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Natanael Copa wrote:

> wireless drivers have been a mess for a long time in linux. things are
> getting alot better now though. We shoudl probably try get ath5k
> working. Seems like it already is in 2.6.30 (is in mainline kernel since
> 2.6.25) so it *should* have been autodetected. You could try:
> 
> modprobe ath5k
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
> 
> you will still need to do the wpa_supplicant for getting WPA working.
> 
>> Jeremy Thomerson
> 

ath5k is autodetected and works for client mode.

Jeremy's trying to configure the card in Access Point mode, and for that 
you need wlanconfig

(http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/AccessPointInterface)


madwifi-ng-tools-0.9.4.apk was in 1.8.x, but isn't compiled for 1.9.x

I think he was trying to make an apk for madwifi-ng-tools when he got stuck.


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