The nice folks at work have just provided me with a new, really spiffy, ThinkPad. So, I''m trying to get wireless working under CentOS4 and I''m having trouble. First, I can''t seem to find any rpms to just install (this would be really nice). And, second, when I try to build it from the src.rpm that I pulled from the atrpms repository with "rpmbuild --recompile madwifi-0.9.4.12-15.rhfc3.at.src.rpm", it dies on line 1. Which source rpm should I be using? Where can I find it? Matt Lawrence "Your friendly neighborhood sysadmin" 512.838.2645 T/L 678-2645 512.351.1061 (cell) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050324/e8d23c60/attachment.htm
> The nice folks at work have just provided me with a new, really spiffy, > ThinkPad. So, I''m trying to get wireless working under CentOS4 and I''m > having trouble. First, I can''t seem to find any rpms to just install > (this would be really nice). And, second, when I try to build it from the > src.rpm that I pulled from the atrpms repository with "rpmbuild > --recompile madwifi-0.9.4.12-15.rhfc3.at.src.rpm", it dies on line 1. > Which source rpm should I be using? Where can I find it? > > Matt Lawrence > "Your friendly neighborhood sysadmin" > 512.838.2645 T/L 678-2645 > 512.351.1061 (cell)_______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >I have just setup wireless on a CentOS4 server. I was provided with a Motorola wireless card. I used ndiswrapper and used the window driver to make it work. CentOS4 come with some wireless tools already installed. Look in /usr/share/doc/ that is were I found them. I found ndiswrapper at sourceforge. There are some chipsets that are supported without using ndiswrapper. HTH Royce Sherman Net Admin SWAT
centos-bounces@caosity.org wrote on 03/24/2005 04:08:05 PM:> I have just setup wireless on a CentOS4 server. I was provided with a > Motorola wireless card. I used ndiswrapper and used the window driverto> make it work. CentOS4 come with some wireless tools already installed. > Look in /usr/share/doc/ that is were I found them. I found ndiswrapperat> sourceforge. There are some chipsets that are supported without using > ndiswrapper.I don''t see any support for the Atheros AR5212 in there. Looks like I may need madwifi. So far, all of the "documentation" I''ve found has been unusable. Any suggestion on where to look? Any suggestion on how to build the madwifi RPM? -- Matt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050324/2489ad4b/attachment.htm
> centos-bounces@caosity.org wrote on 03/24/2005 04:08:05 PM: > >> I have just setup wireless on a CentOS4 server. I was provided with a >> Motorola wireless card. I used ndiswrapper and used the window driver > to >> make it work. CentOS4 come with some wireless tools already installed. >> Look in /usr/share/doc/ that is were I found them. I found ndiswrapper > at >> sourceforge. There are some chipsets that are supported without using >> ndiswrapper. > > I don''t see any support for the Atheros AR5212 in there. Looks like I may > need madwifi. So far, all of the "documentation" I''ve found has been > unusable. Any suggestion on where to look? Any suggestion on how to > build the madwifi RPM? > > -- Matt > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ is where I started. I did alot of googling. If I remember correctly that chipset is supported: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html#AtherosGPL . I had not used madwifi. Royce Net Admin SWAT
On Thursday 24 March 2005 15:08, Royce Sherman wrote:> > The nice folks at work have just provided me with a new, really spiffy, > > ThinkPad. So, I''m trying to get wireless working under CentOS4 and I''m > > having trouble. First, I can''t seem to find any rpms to just install > > (this would be really nice). And, second, when I try to build it from > > the src.rpm that I pulled from the atrpms repository with "rpmbuild > > --recompile madwifi-0.9.4.12-15.rhfc3.at.src.rpm", it dies on line 1. > > Which source rpm should I be using? Where can I find it?Here''s a brief explanation on how I got my Atheros card. I used NDiswrapper to achieve this........ 1. Pull the Windows driver files off your supplied disc or download from the manufactuers website. Pull the files from disc or download that start with (.inf & .SYS); Copy over to your /home folder. 2. Point your browser to Dag Wieers & Group web site located here: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/kernel-module-ndiswrapper/ Download NDiswrapper Utils at the bottom of the page. E.G. ndiswrapper-utils-0.7-1.rhel3.dag.i586.rpm Note: It''s quite alright to use RHEL3 version. I''ve used it myself on CentOS4. You may also want to consider using Dag''s repository as well for other packages. There''s a lot! :) 3. Install the Windows driver from the command line as root. Here''s the 4 steps to do so. 1. ndiswrapper -i xxxxxxxxx.inf 2. ndiswrapper -l Should list the hardware as being detected. E.G. xxxxxxxxx driver present, hardware present 3.modprobe ndiswrapper To activate your wifi card. 4. ndiswrapper -m To load the module upon reboot. Your Windows driver should now be loaded and ready for you to configure your card settings and router using "IWconfig". If your still not sure how to do it. Type in " man iwconfig " There''s plenty of examples and help in there. JD
JD. Brown wrote:> > 2. Point your browser to Dag Wieers & Group web site located here: > > http://dag.wieers.com/packages/kernel-module-ndiswrapper/These have not been updated in forever -- I recommend you go to ndiswrapper.sf.net, get the latest tarball (version 1.1 last I looked), and rebuild the RPM from that -- there''s a specfile inside that works perfectly. ''rpmbuild -ta'' doesn''t work, as they accidentally left the version to something like ''1.0rc1''. Extract it, change to 1.1, and then ''rpmbuild -ba <specfile>'' instead. I just used this.... 2 days ago? to build ndiswrapper-1.1 RPMs on a FC3 laptop to use that crappy Dell 1400 (Broadcom chipset) internal mini-pci card. Worked perfectly, nary a problem. -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
centos-bounces@caosity.org wrote on 03/24/2005 06:12:38 PM:> 1. Pull the Windows driver files off your supplied disc or download fromthe> manufactuers website. Pull the files from disc or download that startwith> (.inf & .SYS); Copy over to your /home folder.Would you believe that this was the hardest part? It''s a mini-PCI card that identifies as an ATheros AR5212. After pounding my head against a few very solid walls, I figured out that I needed the NET5211.INF & AR5211.SYS files. Really obvious. Grrrrr.> Your Windows driver should now be loaded and ready for you to configureyour> card settings and router using "IWconfig". > > If your still not sure how to do it. Type in " man iwconfig " > There''s plenty of examples and help in there.No WAPs at work, so I''ll have to wait until I get home to finish this. Thank you very much for your help, it made a _huge_ difference. ALso, it looks like I have managed to get wireless working on Linux faster than I did on Windows. -- Matt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050325/d611fd29/attachment.htm
> Would you believe that this was the hardest part? It''s a mini-PCI card > that identifies as an ATheros AR5212. After pounding my head against a > few very solid walls, I figured out that I needed the NET5211.INF & > AR5211.SYS files. Really obvious. Grrrrr.I know the feeling real well. :) I would swear that walls without concrete are softer. They all feel the same.> No WAPs at work, so I''ll have to wait until I get home to finish this. > > Thank you very much for your help, it made a _huge_ difference. ALso, it > looks like I have managed to get wireless working on Linux faster than I > did on Windows. > > -- MattOnce you get the initial qwerks figured out. It''s smooth sailing. Glad to be of some to help to you. JD