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

[James Allsopp]

Got it working using madwifi and hostapd 0.5.8, To get madwifi to come up as
ap using modprobe autocreate=ap

This seems to be the only way to get a five series atheros card working as
an ap, as new versions of hostapd only supports madwifi and ath9k.

Thanks for the help,
Jim

2009/12/4 James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com>

> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
>> LCG - UFRJ
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