[Click] Madwifi+Click Problems

Nels Anderson Nels.Anderson at colorado.edu
Mon Aug 30 18:02:44 EDT 2004


Aloha,

Hello again, I'm still experiencing some problems with wifi-enable click and the
stripped madwifi driver for the atheros cardset.  After building the latest
driver and loading all the modules, ath0 comes up with the bizarre ethernet
address of:

ath0   Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-0D-88-8A-78-E3-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

Also when I try and change the MAC address of the card with 'ifconfig ath0 hw
ether $mac' (with a proper address for $mac), it also fails with this message:

SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument

Anyone have any idea what might be causing these problems?

This doesn't happen when I build and load the non-click sourceforge madwifi
drivers.  I actually had both of these things working normally under that
driver.  Now, I'm not sure if it's the stripped driver itself (I don't think it
is) or if it's some combination of kernel options and the stripped driver. 
Something the stripped madwifi uses but the sourceforge one does not.  Does
anyone have a 2.4.26 kernel config that they've been able to get the click-wifi
stuff working with?  I'm just using a stock kernel.org 2.4.26 kernel.

If anyone has any ideas, ran across similiar problems or anything else,
assistance would be much appreciated.  Thanks,

-Nels


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