ORBIT-USER: help on using madwifi

[Sachin]

Did you load the driver?



On 1/30/07, Bin Zan <zanb at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-orbit-user at winlab.rutgers.edu
> [mailto:owner-orbit-user at winlab.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of
> zanb at eden.rutgers.edu
> Sent: 2007?1?27? 12:42
> To: orbit-user at winlab.rutgers.edu
> 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
> >
>
>
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