Madwifi question

[Colin Smillie]

On 5/12/05, John McGregor <mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I've got a newbie-esque question to ask the list. I have an Atheros wifi
> card in my laptop
> that I would like to get working. I've done a fair bit of research and
> it looks like I'll have
> the best shot with the madwifi driver. The problem is that Mandriva
> lists 5 different rpms
> for madwifi:
> 
> - madwifi-0.20050121-2mdk
> - madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdk-0.20050121-1mdk
> - madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdkBOOT-0.20050121-1mdk
> - madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdk-i586-up-1GB-0.20020121-1mdk
> - madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdk-i686-up-4GB-0.20050121-1mdk
> 
> The question is which one do I use? Uname -r  gives 2.6.11 as the
> installed kernel and
> the laptop is a Toshiba Satellite with a 2.8Ghz Celeron and 512 MB ram.

I'm not very familar with the Mandrake kernels but generally for
Madwifi to work you need the supporting applications (
madwifi-0.20050121-2mdk ) and the kernel module. The kernel modules
are setup to match the compiler options for the stock kernel your
using.  You can also compile your own custom kernel but might need to
compile any other supporting modules ( video, ethernet etc... ).

 It would appear that you're running a stock 2.6.11 kernel so you'd
probably need:

madwifi-0.20050121-2mdk
madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdk-0.20050121-1mdk

You would probably get some performance benefits from running the i686
version with a P4 2.8ghz too.  You might want to look into switching
to that, make sure you get all your required kernel modules too.

The kernel modules are setup to match the compiler options for the
stock kernel your using.  You can also compile your own custom kernel
but might need to compile any other supporting modules ( video,
ethernet etc... ).
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