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

[James Allsopp]

i didn't think you could set up an ap using ndiswrapper.
Jim

2009/12/4 Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>

>
>
> 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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