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Then answer "YES" to "Do you want to save? Your wireless connection should work now. To install wicd type the following commands in a terminal window: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wicd Warning about kernel updates Kernel updates of your system will kill your driver, so you'll need to recompile it. Type the command sudo -i into a terminal window and just repeat the last three steps.

Your madwifi will come back to life. Additional step for kernel 2. I heard that it will be in the final 2. This on a 4G asus eeepc. I hope this info helps you in your development. Iwconfig is not able to change VAP mode. However the code could do with some code modularisation the MVG complexity goes up to 64 for some functions. Is it worth me trying to modularise the code and if so where should patches be sent?

Replying to strasak bubakov. I can confirm it works, my laptop is an acer aspire , turion x2 1. Distro: ubuntu beta. Great work! There are some reports that this doesn't "work perfectly" thats what the hardware compatability page says Signal strength is reduced and the connection drops out. Working on an Acer AL, the small form factor desktop. Inserting the module gives the well-known 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' HAL status 3.

Though not difficult, I just don't want to switch to ndiswrapper. Replying to wolleric :. Unknown device c rev If it works, the first few lines will help identify your chipset more reliably than lspci does. Oops, bad link. Perhaps someone should redirect people in the compatibility page to this ticket?

On Fedora rawhide, the version kept losing connectivity. Going back to r fixed the problem. This is an Acer Aspire z. Mandriva's "one" CD and probably the other non-free ones, now offer out of the box support for this card. I tried to download the snapshot snapshots. Checking requirements Checking kernel configuration The snapshot archive has been restructured yesterday, see here. You should not edit the Makefile until you know exactly what you do. The issue you describe is one that is not related to this ticket, so I have opened a new ticket for it.

Please follow up there. Loaded the pre-compiled patch for areg on 8. Works great! Works under slamd64 64 bit with ndiswrapper 1. Does anyone know if the driver and the patch, can put the card in monitor mode, or is this a problem. I have tried with no sucess. I can't connect WPA-wise. Without security works flawless. I downloaded snapshots. Thanks very much for this! It connected much faster than ndiswrapper allowed. This patch works perfect. My hardware is a fujitsu-siemens Amilo P I am using Fedora 8 and had two different kernels in the meantime and it works just great.

Just upgraded to ubuntu hardy was using gutsy with 2. Any ideas as to whats happening? I just installed the latest Debian unstable kernel 2.

Unfortunately, it's met it's match with. I double-checked that I was using the correct version of build-essential and the appropriate kernel headers, was sure to "make clean" beforehand, but still no dice. OK, the kernel I used is in the unstable Debian branch, so I'm hoping whatever's wrong will be fixed before it percolates through to the testing branch, but I just thought I'd add my two cents here. A couple of new build tools came down the Debian unstable pipe today, so I installed them and tried compiling the madwifi driver again.

It worked like a charm. So all is well with this patch and the Debian 2. Anybody has tried to use this card with opensuse 11 beta 2? My opensuse Any comment would be appreciated. Does someone knows if the driver ath5k present in kernel 2. Just to let you know I'm using Kubuntu 8. I've been struggling with the wifi board it's the famous AREG and tried out the patched version It worked fined and am now, as we speak, inputing this information through wireless!

Just to let you know. And to give you my thanks! And to add one more laptop to the list. We would like to thank all participants in their submissions of successful results. We now know that the patched version works on most of the recent linux distribution releases. In order to maintain a smaller page size for this ticket, we would like to request that all submissions be related to a deficiency of the patched source code, or a possible improvement to the package.

I am sorry to keep adding on this looong thread but, are there any plans to have this patch ported to the main version of the driver? I only ask because I am a newbie and these kind of things keep other people I know and myself away from Linux. I for one don't know how to apply the patch to my machine , an HP with Ubuntu 8. Hello: I've made everything to install r on my laptop Lenovo R61 but does not work at all. I cannot scan any wireless network.

This release of MadWifi isn't supported in my laptop. Truly sorry, everything else works, even the fingerprint reader. No compatibility on Ubuntu Hardy 8. Anyone had success with this scenario?

Thanks a lot. ASUS pro71S laptop. Kubuntu Hardy, worked very well with madwifi until the first kubuntu updates arrived. Now i lost my wifi again. Please,answere me. I'm using this driver with my card successfully since a lot of months, produced heavy traffic on that interface.

At the very least, if the cc is detected, the current drivers should not attempt to load. However, a solution is on its way, one that will be available for all supported architectures and will be integrated well in MadWifi no more patching required. It's been worked on very hard, to get rid of a few last bugs before the solution is made available.

They can be installed from their repository by adding it as an installation source. You can use one of the following installation methods depending on your preferences: YaST, zypper, Smart or compiling from source.

Version: You can also use the Ndiswrapper to install your driver if this doesn't work. After kernel module is loaded your wireless card should have been detected. Note: madwifi does not currently support USB devices with the atheros chipset and the roadmap shows it will be sometime before USB support is built into the driver version 2. You can watch progress at www. This will need to be removed before you can install the latest driver. All modules in this package will be removed and may affect areas such as your graphics driver.

If you need to use a module in this package then you will also have to recompile and install that module also. There are howtos on the latest nvidia and fglrx in the breezy tips and tricks section of the form. Preparation You will need a working internet connection to complete this howto. Basic knowledge of moving around in the terminal is required.

If you are using Breezy, you probably should use gcc 3. A quick way to check the gcc version is gcc --version Before you start the command make, a small edit has to be done to a file so driver will make. Now sudo make There will be some warnings but you can ignore those.

Look for any errors as these will need to be addressed before moving on to next step. You should consider removing them before you continue, or else you might experience problems during operation.