Atheros 5007 Madwifi Driver

[nitramf]

Hello!

I have googled several hours, I cannot find the solution.
I got an Samsung R522 with an Atheros 5007 WLAN-Card.

So I installed backtrack today on my harddrive (parallel to windows7), and everything is fine.

Now I wanted to install the madwifi-drivers, but I havn't got this problem solved.
As I see there is only this revision working:
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4126-20100324

I downloaded the tarball, did make + make install +
modprobe ath_pci


If I type in iwconfig now, I should see an at0-interface, but it doesn't show up.

root@bt:~/mad# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=0 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0






root@bt:~/mad# modinfo ath_pci
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.30.9/net/ath_pci.ko
license:        Dual BSD/GPL
version:        svn r4126 (branch madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6)
description:    Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards.
author:         Errno Consulting, Sam Leffler
srcversion:     8A443DE7DABEFD2C364037B
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00009013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000024sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000023sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000019sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000018sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000017sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000016sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000015sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000101Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00001014sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010B7d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000A727d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000012sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000007sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        ath_hal,wlan
vermagic:       2.6.30.9 SMP mod_unload 686
parm:           beacon_cal:int
parm:           countrycode:Override default country code.  Default is 0. (int)
parm:           maxvaps:Maximum VAPs.  Default is 4. (int)
parm:           outdoor:Enable/disable outdoor use.  Default is 0. (int)
parm:           xchanmode:Enable/disable extended channel mode. (int)
parm:           rfkill:Enable/disable RFKILL capability.  Default is 0. (int)
parm:           hal_tpc:Disables manual per-packet transmit power control and lets this be managed by the HAL.  Default is OFF. (int)
parm:           autocreate:Create ath device in [sta|ap|wds|adhoc|ahdemo|monitor] mode. defaults to sta, use 'none' to disable (charp)
parm:           ratectl:Rate control algorithm [amrr|minstrel|onoe|sample], defaults to 'sample' (charp)
parm:           intmit:Enable interference mitigation by default.  Default is 0. (int)
parm:           ath_debug:Load-time driver debug output enable (int)
parm:           ieee80211_debug:Load-time 802.11 debug output enable (int)




root@bt:~/mad#

What could I do?
It would be great if someone could help me out.

Thanks,
nitramf

[Pwnsauce]

i have same model and working perfectly. You can install madwifi drivers and injection support for kernel from Synaptic Package Manager at System menu.Also you can find lots of tut about how to install it. here 1 of them ;

btw u need to connect internet, plug cable to ur laptop and type dhclient to connect

first download madwifi driver and go downloaded path and type this

wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/madwifi-ng-r4073.patch -O – | patch -Np1

down all interfaces.use ifconfig down for all interfaces

make clean & make
sudo ./scripts/madwifi-unload
sudo make install
sudo depmod -ae
sudo modprobe ath_pci
popd

hope it helps

[nitramf]

which driver revision I should take?

the madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4126-20100324 ?


Thank you for helping!
nitramf

[nitramf]

Hello,

I had to wait until I get some internet, so now I am here.
I set the option download only on the madwifi-drivers package, then I went into var/cache/apt/archive/, where the .deb package is inside, I uncompressed it (the inside .tar.lzma too), and this is the folder structure which I get:

root@bt:/var/cache/apt/archives/treiber# ls -R
.:
data.tar  lib  usr

./lib:
modules

./lib/modules:
2.6.30.9

./lib/modules/2.6.30.9:
net

./lib/modules/2.6.30.9/net:
ath_hal.ko  ath_rate_amrr.ko      ath_rate_onoe.ko    wlan.ko      wlan_ccmp.ko     wlan_scan_sta.ko  wlan_wep.ko
ath_pci.ko  ath_rate_minstrel.ko  ath_rate_sample.ko  wlan_acl.ko  wlan_scan_ap.ko  wlan_tkip.ko      wlan_xauth.ko

./usr:
lib  local

./usr/lib:
modules

./usr/lib/modules:
2.6.30.5

./usr/lib/modules/2.6.30.5:
net

./usr/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/net:
ath_hal.ko  ath_rate_amrr.ko      ath_rate_onoe.ko    wlan.ko      wlan_ccmp.ko     wlan_scan_sta.ko  wlan_wep.ko
ath_pci.ko  ath_rate_minstrel.ko  ath_rate_sample.ko  wlan_acl.ko  wlan_scan_ap.ko  wlan_tkip.ko      wlan_xauth.ko

./usr/local:
bin  man  share

./usr/local/bin:
80211debug  80211stats  ath_info  athchans  athctrl  athdebug  athkey  athstats  madwifi-unload  wlanconfig  wpakey

./usr/local/man:
man8

./usr/local/man/man8:
80211debug.8  80211stats.8  athchans.8  athctrl.8  athdebug.8  athkey.8  athstats.8  wlanconfig.8

./usr/local/share:
man

./usr/local/share/man:
man8

./usr/local/share/man/man8:
ath_info.8

But there is no madwifi-ng/ath/if_ath.c anywhere.

What did I do wrong?

Thanks,
nitramf

[nitramf]

Hello,

still not getting that card working

root@bt:~/neumad/madwifi-ng# modinfo ath_pci
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.30.9/net/ath_pci.ko
license:        Dual BSD/GPL
version:        svn r4071
description:    Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards.
author:         Errno Consulting, Sam Leffler
srcversion:     362BB9762B389CA50B44C7F
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00009013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000027sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000024sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000023sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000001Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000019sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000018sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000017sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000016sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000015sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000101Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00001014sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010B7d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000A727d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000012sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000007sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        ath_hal,wlan
vermagic:       2.6.30.9 SMP mod_unload 686
parm:           beacon_cal:int
parm:           countrycode:Override default country code.  Default is 0. (int)
parm:           maxvaps:Maximum VAPs.  Default is 4. (int)
parm:           outdoor:Enable/disable outdoor use.  Default is 0. (int)
parm:           xchanmode:Enable/disable extended channel mode. (int)
parm:           rfkill:Enable/disable RFKILL capability.  Default is 0. (int)
parm:           hal_tpc:Disables manual per-packet transmit power control and lets this be managed by the                   HAL.  Default is OFF. (int)
parm:           autocreate:Create ath device in [sta|ap|wds|adhoc|ahdemo|monitor] mode. defaults to sta, u                  se 'none' to disable (charp)
parm:           ratectl:Rate control algorithm [amrr|minstrel|onoe|sample], defaults to 'sample' (charp)
parm:           intmit:Enable interference mitigation by default.  Default is 0. (int)
parm:           ath_debug:Load-time driver debug output enable (int)
parm:           ieee80211_debug:Load-time 802.11 debug output enable (int)
root@bt:~/neumad/madwifi-ng# modprobe autocreate
FATAL: Module autocreate not found.
root@bt:~/neumad/madwifi-ng# modprobe ath_pci autocreate

With this autocreate the laptop would have to create a ath0 device, but how to use it? I haven't found anything usable at the man pages of modprobe...


Please, help!
Any Ideas would be great

Thanks,
nitramf