sclebo05
03-25-2004, 03:20 AM
A quickie walkthrough on an atheros card on slackware. My access point is 802.11a, but this card does BOTH A and B so it should be the same.
To configure my Atheros 5211 Based SMC2335W wireless card on a Dell 1100 Inpiron running Slackware 9.1, I did the following:
For DHCP:
I installed the package madwifi-20030802.tgz This can be found a few places yet, and unlike the latest CVS of the project, actually compiles.
installpkg madwifi-20030802.tgz
My directory was at /madwifi-2.......02 "cd" into this directory.
compile the drivers with a 'make' and 'make install'.
Here I rebooted, but you could load the drivers manually "modprobe drivername"
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down (turning off ethernet, won't work otherwise apperently)
/sbin/ifconfig ath0 up (turns on the device)
iwlist ath0 scan (shows the available networks)
iwconfig ath0 essid "Pointname" (connects to network)
dhcpcd ath0
"iwconfig ath0" shows info about your wireless connection. "/sbin/ifconfig" shows IP, etc.
...... and it worked. I could ping at this point, and surf.
For static IP, I did the following:
compiled drivers as above....
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
/sbin/ifconfig ath0 192.168.xxx.yyy up (sets your IP address)
route add default gw 192.168.www.zzz (sets default gateway)
added "nameserver 192.168.rrr.sss" to /etc/resolv.conf
iwlist ath0 scan (shows available networks)
iwconfig ath0 essid "Pointname" (connects to network)
"iwconfig ath0" shows info about your wireless connection. "/sbin/ifconfig" shows IP, etc.
.........and it should work.
I am in no way a wireless expert, but these steps worked for me. I have seen a lot of posts about this chipset, card, slackware, etc, but no complete solutions. It is late, and I copied this info from my messy notes. Post any comments and i will try them out and verify that they work. Hope this helps someone. :cool:
To configure my Atheros 5211 Based SMC2335W wireless card on a Dell 1100 Inpiron running Slackware 9.1, I did the following:
For DHCP:
I installed the package madwifi-20030802.tgz This can be found a few places yet, and unlike the latest CVS of the project, actually compiles.
installpkg madwifi-20030802.tgz
My directory was at /madwifi-2.......02 "cd" into this directory.
compile the drivers with a 'make' and 'make install'.
Here I rebooted, but you could load the drivers manually "modprobe drivername"
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down (turning off ethernet, won't work otherwise apperently)
/sbin/ifconfig ath0 up (turns on the device)
iwlist ath0 scan (shows the available networks)
iwconfig ath0 essid "Pointname" (connects to network)
dhcpcd ath0
"iwconfig ath0" shows info about your wireless connection. "/sbin/ifconfig" shows IP, etc.
...... and it worked. I could ping at this point, and surf.
For static IP, I did the following:
compiled drivers as above....
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
/sbin/ifconfig ath0 192.168.xxx.yyy up (sets your IP address)
route add default gw 192.168.www.zzz (sets default gateway)
added "nameserver 192.168.rrr.sss" to /etc/resolv.conf
iwlist ath0 scan (shows available networks)
iwconfig ath0 essid "Pointname" (connects to network)
"iwconfig ath0" shows info about your wireless connection. "/sbin/ifconfig" shows IP, etc.
.........and it should work.
I am in no way a wireless expert, but these steps worked for me. I have seen a lot of posts about this chipset, card, slackware, etc, but no complete solutions. It is late, and I copied this info from my messy notes. Post any comments and i will try them out and verify that they work. Hope this helps someone. :cool: