Re: Madwifi help needed

[stan <stanl cox net>]

On Mon, 28 May 2007 19:59:41 +0100
Anne Wilson <cannewilson googlemail com> wrote:

> After careful research I ordered wireless PCI cards that were said to
> "work out of the box".  When they didn't I realised that my vendor
> had said they were out of stock.  They had been replaced by X-Micro
> cards, which are atheros cards.  I've been following the madwifi
> instructions, and have got the to part of setting WPA-PSK.  The final
> command listed in this section is
> 
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -dd -D 
> madwifi -iath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> or is it
> 
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -dd -Dmadwifi -iath0
> -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ?
> 
> Either way, I just got dozens of lines of 'Invalid ESSID line'
> messages.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Anne
> 
I know next to nothing about wifi, but this current thread
Re: Wifi
is about someone who got madwifi working.

Apologies if you've already seen it and it doesn't help.