Madwifi help needed

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue May 29 09:45:17 UTC 2007


On Monday 28 May 2007 23:45:57 stan wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007 19:59:41 +0100
>
> Anne Wilson <cannewilson at 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  They had been replaced by X-Micro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.

I have, and it didn't, but thanks for taking the trouble to reply.

Anne




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