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Revision as of 10:21, 11 September 2006
Introduction
Madwifi is the name of the open source project and the name of its device driver for the Atheros wireless networking card. The Netgear WGT634U has built-in a MiniPCI Atheros AR5213A card.
Driver Sources
Fetch the tarball from the project's website and unpack them:
$ wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/madwifi/madwifi-0.9.2.tar.bz2 $ tar xjf madwifi-0.9.2.tar.bz2
Alternatively checkout the sources from svn:
$ svn co http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi-svn
Patch for madwifi:
$ svn co svn://sarsvn.informatik.hu-berlin.de/BerlinRoofNet/trunk/madwifi/patches madwifi-patches
Build
Apply patches:
$ cd madwifi-0.9.2 # or "cd madwifi-svn" $ for p in ../madwifi-patches/*.patch; do patch -p1 -i $p; done
Copy build script from kernel:
$ KERNEL_VERSION=2.6.16.13 $ KERNEL_DIR=linux-$KERNEL_VERSION $ cp ../linux-$KERNEL_VERSION/build.sh .
Build:
$ sh build.sh KERNELPATH=$(pwd)/../$KERNEL_DIR
Install
$ KERNELRELEASE=$KERNEL_VERSION$(grep CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= ../$KERNEL_DIR/.config | sed 's/CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="\([^"]\+\)"/\1/') $ sh build.sh install DESTDIR=$(pwd)/../root KERNELRELEASE=$KERNELRELEASE $ (cd ../$KERNEL_DIR; /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b $(pwd)/../root -r $KERNELRELEASE) $ cd ..