iwconfig will not recognize DWL-G650 with madwifi drivers

MrMoo · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 2

I have been trying to get my DWL-G650 wireless card working under the 2.6.1 kernel for the past few days. I emerged the madwifi drivers version 0.1_pre20031213-r1. after modprobing the various modules and starting the device script the wireless card fires right and and works just fine (can access networking and everyting no problem.) But when i try iwconfig it says there are no Wireless Extensions for ath0.

After reading around i realized i hadn't enabled wireless extensions in the kernel, i did so and then have also proceeded to re-emerge both wireless-tools and the madwifi driver and i still get No Wireless Extensions for ath0.

So the card works for all intensive purposes, i just have no control over it... Anybody got any ideas?

UberLord · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

You need to build a kernel with CONFIG_NET_RADIO and CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS enabled. Normally selecting the former in menuconfig automatically enables the latter too, but if you're editing by hand, remember to set both

If it's a PCMCIA card then you may need to restart pcmcia as well