How to checkout and install madwifi experimental driver for ar5008
Official support for the AR5008/AR5418 chipset is expected in the upcoming 0.9.40 release of the madwifi-hal however, in the meantime, there is pre-release support with which some have found some success. In order to take advantage of the latest version of the code, you can either download the nightly snapshot, or use subversion as described below:
- make (if necessary) and change to a directory where you new directory
user@box:~/$ mkdir madwifi user@box:~/$ cd madwifi
- Fetch files using svn
user@box:~/madwifi$ svn co http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk . . . Checked out revision ####.
- Now enter the directory and start compiling:
user@box:~/madwifi$ cd trunk/ user@box:~/madwifi/trunk$ make . . .
- With a little luck, you now have a properly compiled driver, ready for install. You'll probably be asked to enter the root password.
user@box:~/madwifi/trunk$ sudo make install
- Now all that's missing is probing the module. This will create two new network interfaces "wifi#" and "wlan#"
user@box:~/madwifi/trunk$ sudo modprobe ath_pci user@box:~/madwifi/trunk$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:58:86:70:EE inet addr:192.168.0.119 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Base address:0x2000 Memory:ee000000-ee020000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:182621 (178.3 KiB) TX bytes:182621 (178.3 KiB) wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-19-7E-41-09-C1-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:462907 errors:753 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:182 TX packets:563036 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:91695661 (87.4 MiB) TX bytes:846831037 (807.6 MiB) Interrupt:21 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7E:41:09:C1 inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:316176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:562494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:54115716 (51.6 MiB) TX bytes:823180275 (785.0 MiB)
It's wlan0 that you're after. Who knows what this wifi0 business is all about.