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MadWifi is short for Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity. In other words: this project provides a Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices. The driver works such that your WLAN card will appear as a normal network interface in the system. Additionally there is support for the Wireless Extensions API. This allows you to configure the device using common wireless tools (ifconfig, iwconfig and friends).[http://madwifi.org/wiki/MadWifi]
  
 
== Getting the source ==
 
== Getting the source ==

Revision as of 16:09, 26 March 2007

Download Source: http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng-current.tar.gz

Introduction to MadWifi

MadWifi is short for Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity. In other words: this project provides a Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices. The driver works such that your WLAN card will appear as a normal network interface in the system. Additionally there is support for the Wireless Extensions API. This allows you to configure the device using common wireless tools (ifconfig, iwconfig and friends).[1]

Getting the source

If you have Subversion installed issue the following command to download the source:

svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi

You may also want to create a tarball to use at a later time:

tar cvjpf madwifi-r$(svnversion madwifi).tar.bz2 madwifi

Dependencies

Required

Non-Running Kernel

If you're attempting to build Madwifi for a kernel that's not currently running, also pass the following to make and make install.

KERNELPATH=/path/to/kernel/source

KERNELPATH defaults to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build.

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

make

Install the package

make BINDIR=/usr/bin MANDIR=/usr/share/man install

Multilib

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