Re: MADWIFI Question

> Sorry for the lame post, but here goes.
>
> Madwifi works fine on linux laptops, but need support in Freebsd.
>
> The post I read I seem to remember saying that it (madwifi) was native
> in current?
>
> I took a new hd in a Dell laptop.  Did an ftp install of 5.1 stable.
> Cvsuped to current for source and ports. Did a buildworld, recompiled
> the kernel and did a installworld.  Everything seemed to work fine.
>
> Stuck in a 11a card (works fine with madwifi in linux) and looked for
> an ath0 interface. Found nothing.  Looked in modules and found the ath_hal
> module.  Installed it with kld, but there's got to be another supporting
> module somewhere for the interface?
>
> The answer isn't to grab the ported linux tarball off of sf.net, is it?
> If it is, I am really missing something here.
>
> Any and all help would be great.
>

Either config your kernel with:

device	ath
device	wlan
device	ath_hal

or build these as modules, install them, and do

kldload ath

Module dependencies will do the rest.

	Sam