wpa_supplicant and madwifi: working but how to tweak?

mhoyt · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 4

I have successfully managed to get madwifi and wpa_supplicant working complete with boot time setup. I am feeling pretty good about that. :-)

So now I am confused as to how to analyze what I've got working. For example I am not sure if its running 11b or 11g and what the data rate is. While I was playing around with the wireless tools and the madwifi driver on the command line there was a way using "iwpriv" to set the "turbo" mode.

Now that I am using wpa_supplicant with the madwifi driver, how can I tweak the madwifi driver setup and how can I get a "status" of what the connection is? wpa_gui is pretty limited.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Mike

nuke · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 30

Can you post some details like the versions of the kernel, madwifi driver and wpa_supplicant you are using? Also what kernel sources you are using. I've been trying for a while to upgrade from wpa_supp 0.3.9, old madwifi-driver and suspend2-sources 2.6.13-r5, but that whole area seemed unstable for a while.

Thanks.

mhoyt · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 4

Sure,

I am using:

kernel: linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r3
madwifi_ng: 1443.20060207
wpa_supplicant: 0.4.8

The trick was ensuring that I had the madwifi USE flag set in my make.conf when I emerged WPA_Supplicant otherwise it doesn't build with support for the madwifi driver support.

MIke

Phlogiston · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:22 pm Post subject:

Does your wpa_gui show the networks you've configured? Here it does not work...
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VeneficusAcerbus · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 14 Location: IN, USA

Since you're using (a recent) madwifi-ng, I don't think you even needed the madwifi USE flag since that version supports the generic Wireless Extensions, so you could just specify "-Dwext" to wpa_supplicant. I tried both "-Dwext" and "-Dmadwifi" and both worked for me, although I've got a more recent madwifi-ng manually compiled from a snapshot.

Chris W · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:12 am Post subject:

iwconfig should give you current connection speed (for a station) and other details of your interface configuration. iwlist can show a range of detail about interfaces and the wireless environment (peers, APs etc.).
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Phlogiston · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:41 am Post subject:

BTW: wpa_gui works now, and everything else too. :wink:

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