Someone told me the old madwifi is becoming very obsolete and will not be supported anymore...it was even removed from testing in the Debian repository which means it will be gone from the ability to...

I hope you have better luck than I do. I have been working on this since last year on various other Linux distros and BSD but still nothing.

Are you guys taunting me or what :(

You're not even reading any of my posts

I am saving, but it's hard with a minimum wage job and rent/bills that leave you with only a few bucks a year. I'm just waiting until the prices of today's technology decreases exponentially in the...

If you read my original post, I did that exact same thing and said it didn't work :(

Well, I just wanted to keep up to date and not use old/obsolete programs that might have bugs or something that were fixed in the newer versions, and also any other deprecated things, and for this...

Wouldn't that put my card in monitor mode? I don't want that

No the base is made by Asus but the rest of the parts are from various other companies (such as the RAM, HDD, etc.)

You mean the BIOS for my mobo? Sure. On my manufacturer's website, the latest version is from 2004. I remember flashing it back then, so it's up to date.

I don't remember. I know it was some time after 2000 though. (Doesn't help much, sorry :p)

Yea, that all works fine, but when I do "dhclient wlan0", it doesn't connect to my router. So I have to unplug my wireless card and plug it back in, and then I can connect to the internet again with...

I have BT3 installed to my HDD, and I'm using the ath5k driver for my atheros wireless card instead of madwifi.

With madwifi, I used to change my MAC address like this:



# ifconfig ath0 down...

Unfortunately my mobo does not support booting from a USB device.

But if I get a DVD-RW drive that plugs into my laptop USB, will it still work? Since it does not support USB booting, yet the DVD...

I do not have a DVD drive (which is why I also can't install Windows Vista and Windows 7 even though I wanted to try them, but that's besides the point) and I noticed that BT4 only has a DVD image...