Obtaining an RPM for the proper old atheros madwifi driver, not ath5k

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, James Allsopp
<jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> I actually realised what I was doing wrong. The ath5k module came with the
> fedora kernel, but I've blacklisted it, and now  and got the madwifi drivers
> installed. I can now get the device into master with the correct ssid, but
> can't get ath0 to accept an ip address.
>
> I tried to use ath5k, but need the 0.6 version of hostapd. There doesn't
> appear to be a rpm in any repository for this recently version. I don't want
> to leave my system in a mess by installing it manually, hence returning to
> madwifi.
>
> Also I believe one of the users in this thread said that they couldn't get
> ath5k working as an ap, whereas I've had madwifi working as an ap before.
>
> If anyone can show me the location of a 0.6 hostapd rpm, I'll try ath5k.
>
> James
>
>
>
> 2009/12/4 Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:44 AM, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:17:18PM +0000, James Allsopp wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm running Fedora 12, and was wondering if anyone knew of a repository
>> >> which contains one of hte old atheros drivers. I want to get rid of
>> ath5k as
>> >> it doesn't seem to have a good reputation, sounds very experimental
>> still,
>> >> and I can't make an access point with it without a hostapd0.6 rpm.
>> >
>> > Did you actually try ath5k?  Is obtaining a later hostapd really a
>> > bigger hardship than using an unmaintained, out-of-tree driver?
>> >
>> > If you have specific problems with ath5k then please cite them.
>> > Even better, open a bugzilla entry for them.  But please don't just
>> > spread random FUD.
>> >
>> > Madwifi is a dead project.  It does support a few oddball features
>> > (many of them non-standard) that some people need, mostly due to
>> > legacy use of Madwifi.  If you won't know what those are or why you
>> > need them, then you almost certainly should be using ath5k.
>> >
>>
>> I should add that madwifi doesn't even work in F12 (possibly F11 too,
>> but I've not tried).  When I was having issues with ath9k, I actually
>> attempted to switch to madwifi out of desperation, and the kernel
>> modules wouldn't even load (when built from source).  Tons of missing
>> symbols.
>>
>> Seriously, if you think problems with athXk are annoying, try getting
>> problems fixed with madwifi when its not even maintained and is likely
>> to not work at any time.
>>
>>
It works fine for me in F11 using ndiswrapper from ATrpms and the windows
driver.

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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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