Re: Madwifi drivers on floppy, howto.
Matthew K Poer wrote:
> On Saturday 07 July 2007 3:27 pm, J. Santos wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> How do i create a floppy with the madwifi driver so ecth can recognize
>> my atheros based wifi card at install time?
>> I have been googleing but cant find anything relevant.
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> Well, it looks like you would need to download the deb file packages for
> madwifi-source[0] and madwifi-tools[1].
>
> Then there is this article on installing MadWifi the Debian way[2].
>
> Unfortunantly, the madwifi-source package is 3421 KBytes. This means it will
> not fit on a floppy. A usb storage device or CD-ROM would work, though.
>
> [0] http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/madwifi-source
> [1] http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/madwifi-tools
> [2] http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi
>
> I hope that helps!
>
Thank you, it did help.
I managed to build the modules and the wifi card is up and running (not
at install time but after i installed a minimal system)
Thank you for your time.
Regards
José Santos
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