[Voyage-linux] madwifi trunk r3573 + adhoc tests on voyage

[Xavier Martinez]

Finally (with the help of a developer) if managed to compile the
newest madwifi driver and got it installed on a WRAP board with two
CM9 cards. However, it only ups one interface (wifi0) during boot.
Doing a "ifup ath1" after boot wakes up the second interface, so it is
not a problem of configuration file. Dmesg doesn't show any error
message. Any idea?

Here is my /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 10.225.1.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 10.225.1.3

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
       address 10.225.0.49
       netmask 255.255.255.248
        pre-up wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
        pre-up iwconfig ath0 channel 11
        up iwconfig ath0 essid guifibages-supernode-SC-PG
        up sysctl -w dev.wifi0.diversity=0
        up sysctl -w dev.wifi0.txantenna=2
        up sysctl -w dev.wifi0.rxantenna=2
        up athctrl i wifi0 -d 3000
        up iwpriv ath0 mode 3
        up iwconfig ath0 txpower 20
        up iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0
        up iwconfig ath0 channel 11

auto ath1
iface ath1 inet static
       address 10.224.0.25
       netmask 255.255.0.0
        pre-up wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi1 wlanmode adhoc
        up iwconfig ath1 essid guifibages
        up iwconfig ath1 channel 6






2008/5/16 Xavier Martinez <xavier.martinez.llado at gmail.com>:
> I've tried to compile the madwifi for the 0.4.1 voyage version
> installed in a WRAP and I've ended with a remote WRAP broken. I've
> followed carefully the instructions on the wiki but I'm afraid my
> knowledge of building kernels is too poor.
>
> I would be very very very pleased if someone could explain (step by
> step, I'm a newbie) how to compile the revision 3573 and install to a
> WRAP running a 0.4.1 voyage version.
>
> I do need madwifi to work in ad-hoc mode under voyage because we are
> currently using WRAPs in our network and they don't work properly
> under voyage.
>
> Many, many thanks!!
>
> 2008/5/16 Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com>:
>> Hi Federico,
>>
>> It would be great if you can release the source package of r3573 madwifi
>> driver, so that I can rebuilt it for the latest kernel and provided as
>> optional/contrib package. Voyage user can get benefit from it.
>>
>> In addition, I would like to see if anyone has used Ubiquiti madwifi driver
>> in voyage, I would also built it as kernel module package well.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Punky
>>
>> Frederico Marques wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Xavier,
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 10, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Xavier Martinez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Federico!
>>>>
>>>> These are great news!!! It seems that madwfif r3573 has no longer the
>>>> ad-hoc bug. What distribution of voyage are you running?
>>>> Could you please send me the .deb package for the madwifi driver?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using Voyage 0.4.1. I could send you a .deb package for the new
>>> madwifi but was built for a new kernel I've compiled for my setup. I have
>>> the src packages if you want.
>>>
>>> --fred
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Punky
>>
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