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| − | == Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi ==
| + | wifi is a technology that is using for high speed internet. wifi range determines the range for wireless systems. |
| − | Linux driver for 802.11a/b/g universal NIC cards - Cardbus, PCI, or miniPCI - using Atheros chip sets.
| + | wifi hotspots are used for transferring of data through wire. |
| − | | + | * [http://www.wifiguide.org wifi] |
| − | The following adapters sold by IBM use the Atheros chips:
| + | * [http://www.wifiguide.org/wifi.php wifi] |
| − | * [[IBM Dual-Band 11a/b Wi-Fi Wireless Mini PCI Adapter]] | + | * [http://www.wifiguide.org/wifi-security.php wifi security] |
| − | * [[IBM 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter]] | + | * [http://www.wifiguide.org/wifi-services.php wifi services] |
| − | * [[IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter]]
| + | * [http://www.wifiguide.org/wifi-hotspots.php wifi hotspots] |
| − | * [[IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter II]] | + | * [http://www.wifiguide.org/wifi-cards.php WiFi Cards] |
| − | * [[ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter]] | + | * [http://www.wifiguide.org/wifi-radio.php WiFi Radio] |
| − | * IBM 802.11a Wireless LAN Cardbus Adapter
| + | * [http://www.wifiguide.org/wifi-antenna.php WiFi Antenna] |
| − | * IBM 11 a/b/g Wireless Cardbus Adapter
| + | * [http://www.wifi-planet.org wifi] |
| − | | + | * [http://www.wifi-planet.org/wifi.php wifi] |
| − | === Project Homepage ===
| + | * [http://www.wifi-planet.org/wifi-hotspots.php wifi hotspots] |
| − | http://www.madwifi.org (old page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi) | + | * [http://www.wifi-world.org wifi] |
| − | | + | * [http://www.wifi-world.org/WiFi.php wifi] |
| − | === Packages ===
| + | * [http://www.wifi-world.org/wifi-hotspots.php Wifi Hotspots] |
| − | *{{Debian}} Packages: http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/madwifi | + | * [http://www.wifi-world.org/wiFi-antenna.php WiFi Antenna] |
| − | *{{Debian}} Packages: http://www.users.tpg.com.au/sigm/misc/madwiki.txt | + | * [http://www.wifi-world.org/wiFi-range.php WiFi Range] |
| − | *{{Fedora}} Packages(1): http://rpm.livna.org | + | * [http://www.wifi-world.org/wlan.php WLAN] |
| − | *{{Fedora}} Packages(2): http://www.atrpms.net/name/madwifi/ | |
| − | *{{Ubuntu}} Package: {{cmduser|sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`}}
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| − | *{{Gentoo}} ebuild: {{cmduser|emerge net-wireless/madwifi-driver net-wireless/madwifi-tools}} | |
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| − | === Source ===
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| − | Detailed instructions can be found [http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/GettingMadwifi on the MadWiFi Wiki].
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| − | * Daily snapshots: http://snapshots.madwifi.org/ | |
| − | * madwifi-ng: | |
| − | :{{cmduser|svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi-ng}}
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| − | * madwifi-old: | |
| − | :{{cmduser|svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/branches/madwifi-old madwifi-old}}
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| − | === Installation ===
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| − | *Make sure that you've got sysctl support and the net/radio enabled (wireless extensions) in your kernel. Install the driver with make & make install
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| − | * further more you like to install the wireless tools from [http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html wireless tools]. Make sure the versions fit together by | |
| − | :{{cmduser|iwconfig --version}}
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| − | Setting up [[wpa_supplicant]] with wpa-psk.
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| − | === Status ===
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| − | in development, usable
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| − | === OpenSource HAL ===
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| − | The "official" driver consists of an opensource wrapper with binary HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). This HAL is not a binary firmware like with the Intel Wireless chips, but a piece of code that needs to runs in the Linux kernel.
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| − | The vendors reasoning behind this is, that since the Atheros chip could be tuned to any frequency, and hence interfere with systems operating in those frequencies, that we simply need to accept this binary module.<br>
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| − | Obviously this binary HAL is unacceptable to the Linux kernel developers, and the Atheros driver in this state will never become part of the official kernel.<br>
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| − | Some OpenBSD developers facing the same issue, reverse engineered the binary HAL and have produced an OpenSource version. Hopefully a driver based on this might be included with the Linux kernel at some point in time, and picked up by the mainstream distributions.
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| − | === Related links ===
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| − | * [http://www.madwifi.org/wiki MadWiFi Wiki] | |
| − | * [http://team.vantronix.net/ar5k/ OpenSource Atheros HAL] | |
| − | * [http://www.ath-driver.org/ OpenSource Atheros driver for Linux] | |
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| − | [[Category:Drivers]]
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