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[quagga]

I imagine everybody knows this already but atheros released a patch yesterday for madwifi which allows madwifi to work on an eee with any Linux distribution. Ie, ndiswrapper can now be placed into its proper place - the trashcan.

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679

These are the most direct directions: http://madwifi.org/t...192#comment:186

It takes about 5 minutes :).

[digitalfreeze]

This is very good news. Thanks for sharing quagga.

[quagga]

I also updated the wiki: http://wiki.eeeuser....madwifi_drivers

Those should be as "cut and paste" friendly as possible.

Note: the native drivers solved the issue for me where ndiswrapper was using 50% of the cpu. Eliminating ndiswrapper eliminated the resource leak.

[pfriedel]

Hah, figures, I just restored to xandros because ndiswrapper was hogging my CPU. Great news! Now to dig out a CD-ROM to do a livecd install, because the minimal memory stick netinst was too much of a trip back to 1998 for my tastes. :)

[kiddyfurby]

[edit: now working properly]

is that working well for you guys?
they aren't working for me... I m using Xubuntu Gutsy

Edited by kiddyfurby, 04 December 2007 - 03:09 AM.

[quagga]

I'm typing this on xubuntu gutsy using those drivers.

[gh3]

've just uninstalled ndiswrapper:

sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

removed the blacklist file, then reebooted

and in Network Connection applet changed to wlan0 and it worked as charm ;)

[Shades]

It seems like it loads the ndiswrapper instead of the ath_pci module, even after I removed the blacklist. If I do rmmod ndiswrapper and modprobe ath_pci it seems to be working, but not when I reboot the system. Do I need to something else than installing it? Just remove the blacklist?

[quagga]

You can remove ndiswrapper (that's what I did) or blacklist ndiswrapper.

[Shades]

Even after removing ndiswrapper-common and -utils, it still loads ndiswrapper. I can see it with lsmod. And the ath_pci doesn't get loaded.

[Shades]

Yes! Now it works. I needed to remove the /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper file.

[brushedtooth]

Works well in my Arch linux install, thanks for the information!

[nigelspowage]

Thanks for the clear instructions, I've got it working on mine now :)

[br00tal]

Stomps in Slackware. Thanks for the link and news!

[greatwhitemonkey]

awesome timing, i installed ubuntu on my eeepc yesterday, and the ndiswrapper was giving me problems

[kartoykarto]

Does this madwifi driver support monitor mode? and what about using aireplay? Does this drivers support injection of traficc?

[pfriedel]

I can confirm that it worked, but it was feeling fragile, so I'm going to take another whack at it.

I could either get the 5-bar wifi hotspot finder in the taskbar on top, or I could get it so that it was in /etc/network/interfaces, but I couldn't get _both_. Eventually I got it so that it was just magically "working" and pinging my router, but no 5-bar display up top. I had some trouble with the atl2 driver spontaneously deciding to not see the switch, though, so I had done some poking around with modules prior to patching madwifi..

[quagga]

Kismet works so I imagine monitor mode works. I imagine the drivers can be patched for injection as well although that is another matter.

[kartoykarto]

thanks for your answer quagga. Iwill try to install and do some tests

[Greenie]

now the front page can be updated with the good news of easy wireless drivers on the EeePC :)