Linpus madwifi updated driver

Hello, I find it a bit strange that nobody already requested, or even spoke about getting the latest madwifi drivers compiled for the Acer Linpus Lite OS.

that would permit to run aircrack-ng...

I will try on my own this evening if I ever have time, if somebody else did it please post it here.

The driver we want is there : http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/ma ... 007.tar.gz

Thanks in advance

 

Ok I tried yesterday by downloading the 2.6.23.9 sources directly on the aspire and compiled the latest hal madwifi driver.

It works perfectly on the aircrack-ng side : airmon-ng start wifi0 creates a second card ath1 that is in monitor mode, while ath0 stays associated with my AP.

But there is a problem, now the connection to my AP is saying link quality is 20% at 48M/s, though I'm 5 meters from my AP and with the original driver I have 100% quality at 54M/s.

Could be related to the version of gcc, possibly different from the one used to compile the kernel, does someone know which one has been used by acer ?

 

i have downloaded this madwifi driver and will try it this afternoon. Does it work simply by doing #sudo make #sudo make install or do I have to do anything else to make it work properly?

Thanks a lot.

 

Errm, those drivers are old. For the AR5007EG card, which is what the Aspire has, you want Sam's snapshots, at http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/

(Latest one is from early this month.)

 

there's no way to distribute the already compiled madwifi for linpus?

I always find some problem with make, it says I need one library... or another... or some folder doesn't exist... I can't compile my own madwifi drivers.

Someone please... wich are ALL THE STEPS to achieve a madwifi driver compiled from a just installed linpus ( make , make install isn't enough).

Thanks in advance.

 

Untested, but in Fedora one usually needs

sudo yum install make gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel

This will also pull in several other packages. However, I'm not sure what will happen with Linpus, as it's probably using a different kernel version. It will ask if you want to do it, as long as it's not also putting in a new kernel, I would type y for yes.
Assuming that works, after that, make and make install should work.

 

I'd love to give this a go.

After I 'make install', is there any way of reverting back to the stock driver?

 

I've downloaded the acer kernel sources directly from acer, compiled the latest 0.10.5.6 madwifi hal drivers with the right gcc version, but it's the same problem, at 5 meters from my ap it says link quality is 40%. It's usable for airodump-ng and all the stuff though, and it detects more AP, with better link, than my desktop's pci wlan card.

Guess we have to wait for ath5k to have something really usable in both contexts.

@silentwol : acer drivers are in /lib/modules/2.6.23.9lw/madwifi
most recent madwifi drivers install in /lib/modules/2.6.23.9lw/net

So there is no risk to delete the original ones, after make install, just put the madwifi dir out of /lib/modules/2.6.23.9lw/ and run depmod -a

 

ok thanks, I'll give it a go

Is there any chance that it's just reporting the signal strength incorrectly? If you move far away can you still get a signal or does it cut out closer than the stock drivers?

Also, people have reported Backtrack working (I would would try that but I don't have a suitable USB stick)... anyone know what drivers that uses?

 

tried some madwifi drivers but now cannot connect to any wifi at all
, and led doesnt work. How do I revert to orig. acer wifi drivers?

i am new to linux so i assumed if i want I can just download original
drivers and reinstall...

little did i know
the AA1 cannot connect online so I need the steps needed to install the original driver offline...


I posted this to drivers forum as well, sorry for the X, but its been 6 days now...

 

I did the same - but the solution was simpler than I dared hope for!

Go into [Add/Remove Software] and search for 'madwifi'

there will be three or so packages showing as installed on your system.

Uninstall all of them and reboot.

On my AA1 this made the wifi work again just fine

 

The add/remove couldnt run, I was offline.
I had to restore...!!!

Guess its not easy in linpus/fedora to fix driver issues as in xp...

I havent had to format(restore) my xp pc's in 3 years.
Registry & safe mode does the trick for me...
Couple of times I would even swap a system HD to a different system and keep installed apps, no clean install just reinstall all systemdrivers...

Felt very silly looking for 10days in Linux forums/wikis etc for how to fix network drivers...
And get no clear answer ...