madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13

[nss]

I'm trying to get wireless working using madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13 on a core 2 macbook running amd64 gentoo. I followed the gentoo-wiki but am still having troubles.

[GoldenMouse]

Why are you using madwifi-hal? Shouldn't you have installed madwifi-ng, instead? That should pull in everything else you need as deps, except wireless-tools, which is listed as a dep only in the newest (masked for x86) version. So, just to be sure, go ahead and emerge these packages.

emerge madwifi-ng wireless-tools

then load up the module either by rebooting or running modprobe. After that,

ifconfig ath0 up

If you want, this gets a listing of nearby APs

iwlist scan|less

iwconfig ath0 essid YOUR_NEWORK_NAME

append "enc WEP_KEY" without the quotes if you're using WEP. And finally,

dhcpcd ath0

to get your IP address. Also, make sure that you've enabled the appropriate kernel options for wireless. I don't have my system here to which to refer, but you need to enable the wireless networking and possibly PCMCIA and cardbus in your kernel.

I know a fair amount of this is a repeat for you, but it's better to get it all down.

[nss]

GoldenMouse, thanks for your suggestions. The version of madwifi presently available in portage does not support my card so I am having to use an experimental branch, madwifi-hal-0.9.30.13. I spent some time on #madwifi last night and learned that my problem is not with the dhcp client. The card is not associating with an access point even though the proper essid is found. What about other macbook users out there? I feel like I'm the only one having this problem.
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[GoldenMouse]

Sure. There seems to be a discussion on Macbooks going on in the Debian forums that you may be interested in: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14847