ORBIT-USER: help on using madwifi

[Bin Zan]

Hi all,
              I use the latest image baseline-2.0.ndz and after image, I log
on to single node try to run "wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode
ap" in order to create an interface as an access point followed
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/AccessPointInterface , but it
gave me "wlanconfig: ioctl: Input/output error", does any one the what is
wrong?

Thanks,
Bin Zan

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Subject: Re: ORBIT-USER: help on using madwifi


Hello Luis,
        That sounds great. Thanks for your help.

Best Regards,
Bin Zan



> On 1/26/07, Bin Zan <zanb at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Sachin,
>>         Thanks for your reply.  It is my first time to use ORBIT, and I
>> didn't modify baseline image before. I check the file, it is huge even
>> can't
>> open in emacs. I am not sure I can fix the problem by create my own
>> image.
>> Now, I am trying to install madwifi manually on the node first. I was
>> trying
>> to run "apt-get install madwifi-source" as suggestted on their website,
>> but
>> it failed. Do you have any experience on that? Install the madwifi
>> driver?
>> or any other driver?
>
> Bin,
>
> images cannot be edited directly but to do what I think you would want
> to do we want to add frisbee image support for loopback mounts. The
> frisbee image is essentially a compressed image of a partition. What
> we want then is to be able to decompress the image and then mount it
> through a loopback interface. I will look into the frisbee utilities
> to see if we can make this support available as I find it would be
> highly useful. We would then be able to do simple things like update
> packages and files on the image without imaging a node through a
> changeroot environment.
>
> Now to address your other concern -- as Sachin pointed out, the
> baseline.ndz image currently points to baseline-1.9.0.ndz image which
> only has the madwifi-old driver. Earlier today the image you could
> have used to get the new madwifi driver was baseline-1.0.11. But I
> have a better image for you now, I will post the details to orbit-user
> on another thread. For details of supported images please refer to:
>
> http://orbit-lab.org/wiki/Documentation/SupportedImages
>
>   Luis
>