Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:13:25 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: snoop9@hushmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MADWIFI Question Message-ID: <16679724.1060204405@melange.errno.com> In-Reply-To: <200308070019.h770JMux095087@mailserver2.hushmail.com> References: <200308070019.h770JMux095087@mailserver2.hushmail.com>
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> Sorry for the lame post, but here goes. > > Madwifi works fine on linux laptops, but need support in Freebsd. > > The post I read I seem to remember saying that it (madwifi) was native > in current? > > I took a new hd in a Dell laptop. Did an ftp install of 5.1 stable. > Cvsuped to current for source and ports. Did a buildworld, recompiled > the kernel and did a installworld. Everything seemed to work fine. > > Stuck in a 11a card (works fine with madwifi in linux) and looked for > an ath0 interface. Found nothing. Looked in modules and found the ath_hal > module. Installed it with kld, but there's got to be another supporting > module somewhere for the interface? > > The answer isn't to grab the ported linux tarball off of sf.net, is it? > If it is, I am really missing something here. > > Any and all help would be great. > Either config your kernel with: device ath device wlan device ath_hal or build these as modules, install them, and do kldload ath Module dependencies will do the rest. Sam
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