FC6 Madwifi and NM

[Adam Hough]

As I said earlier in another thread.  I find that wpa_supplicant works
better then NM when using a madwifi (atheros) chipset. 

My setup:

I use kwifimanager to display signal strength.

I use this to manage the network profile.
yum install wpa_supplicant-gui 

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group="{ put wheel or your userid ow the user group or
something like this to allow normal users to modify the wireless}"
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="any"
        key_mgmt=NONE
}

/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
# wlan0 and wifi0
# INTERFACES="-iwlan0 -iwifi0"
INTERFACES="-iath0"
# ndiswrapper and prism
# DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper -Dprism"
DRIVERS="-Dmadwifi"

/usr/local/bin/dhclient.ath0
/sbin/dhclient -q -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-ath0.leases
-pf /var/run/dhclient-ath0.pid ath0

chmod 744 /usr/local/bin/dhclient.ath0

echo "/sbin/dhclient -q -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-ath0.leases
-pf /var/run/dhclient-ath0.pid ath0" >> /etc/rc.local



On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 23:02 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> Running D-link G650 on my laptop.
> 
> 1) signal strenght is much lower than in Windows (let us say 45% when
> Windows says excellent)
> 2) I am experiencing frequent disconnections from my net
> 3) I am running WPA but if I want to get IP number from my router
> DHCP, no way to connect to my network (it works in Windows)
> 
> Are these points connected to madwifi or to NM?? (everything is
> updated to tonich releases rpm's
> 
> Tnx
> -- 
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag
> 
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