What is the command for...

[JM Aggie08]

To install MadWifi? i have it downloaded in windows and i am not too sure what to do next. also, where do you input these so called commands in linux?

 

[bersl2]

First of all, what distro do you use?

 

[JM Aggie08]

unbuntu

 

[JM Aggie08]

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[drag]

Ubuntu?

You should be able to use the 'Package Management Gui' called Synaptic to install the madwifi drivers.

You may have to go into that and enable what is called the 'universe' and 'multiverse' repositories. It may not be aviable by default.

Repositories are online ftp and http websites that contain all these software packages you can install. Ubuntu has it's main supported packages aviable by default and it has a bunch more they have aviable to you if you want them, but you have to enable access to them.

You can find more information on how to do this at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/index.html
Read through the section called 'Adding, Removing, and Updating Applications'.

Also more information is aviable at:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper

The command line way to install packages would be using 'apt-get'.


I don't have Ubuntu installed so I don't know for sure, but it looks like what you need is aviable in a package called "linux-restricted-modules"
See here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/sear...l&subword=1&version=dapper&release=all

So you may have to match what package you choose to install with your kernel.
To find out what kernel version your running open up a command line terminal and use this command:
uname -r

These packages only reside in what is called the 'restricted' repository. It is restricted because there are legal issues involving these packages in some countries.

Now you can do this with the GUI, but from the command line...


sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup
(so you can undo any changes if you make a mistake. Just copy the file back over the edited version.)

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
(and enable the extra repositories. You can find more information and sample configuration at
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#Repositories )
(They also have versions for edgy or other Ubuntu versions)

sudo apt-get update
(to update the database of aviable packages)

sudo apt-get upgrade
(to update any packages which may need them. If there is a kernel update then you want to reboot after you finish installing the updates, then get back to this point. Check the names of the packages and what is being updated before saying 'yest')

sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`
(using the back ticks (the ~ button back ticks) is a command line trick for using the ouput of one command in another command. This trick should allow you to automaticly pick what version you need. If it doesn't work then you will have to type out the entire package name)

Also you can copy and paste into a terminal by highlighting the text you want to copy and using 'middle click' on the terminal to paste.

Then if everything works then you should now have the drivers you need. Go ahead and reboot if you want, the drivers should be loaded after that, or manually use the 'modprobe' command to activate them.

Unfortunately I don't have a Ubuntu box or a Atheros-based wireless card to test this out for you so I don't know if this will do everything you need. Sorry, I hope I don't mislead you.

Hopefully somebody here will be able to tell you if this is right.

Otherwise for maybe more accurate Ubuntu help you can check out the Ubuntu forums at http://ubuntuforums.org/

 

[n0cmonkey]

There's a thread on this in the Networking forum. You should check it out. I posted a couple of links there.

 

[Nothinman]

The madwifi stuff should work out of the box in Dapper, as long as the restricted modules package is installed.