Thread: [Madwifi-users] Madwifi version question related to documentation
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From: Chad M. <cha...@ya...> - 2005-12-31 14:54:04
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Hi, Since I failed to build a WEP network between 2 atheros cards, I moved on to a WPA-PSK network and was successful (hurrah!!!) After my experience, I noticed a mistake in the documentation http://www.madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/WPA_PSK_on_Both_Ends. It says that the wpa_supplicant.conf file should have the following option set: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant However, using the what I believe is the latest madwifi-ng source code and wpa_supplicant 0.4.7. I have discovered that including the ctrl_interface option is incorrect. When starting wpa_supplicant it says: Initializing interface 'ath0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'madwifi' ctrl_interface 'N/A' Which means that ctrl_interface is not permitted. I could update the documentation, but if I do I would like to include madwifi-ng versioning information, just in case this option is correct for other versions. So my question is the following: is their an overall version for madwifi-ng code? (I noticed that their are versions for the individual modules and no version information to wlanconfig. Thanks in advance for your response. (My C skills are a bit rusty so I can't contribute with code, but I can contribute with documentation). Thanks, Chad --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. |
From: Michael R. <ma...@no...> - 2006-01-03 10:27:32
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Hi. On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 06:53 -0800, Chad Meister wrote: > So my question is the following: is their an overall version > for madwifi-ng code? (I noticed that their are versions for the > individual modules and no version information to wlanconfig. Since we have no releases of the driver so far, the safest way is to refer to the revision of the snapshot you're using. You have several options to do this, depending on how you installed MadWifi: 1. You checked out a working copy from the Subversion repository: change to the directory with your working copy, then type: "svn info". It will give you something like: Path: . URL: http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk Repository UUID: 0192ed92-7a03-0410-a25b-9323aeb14dbd Revision: 1372 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: svens Last Changed Rev: 1372 Last Changed Date: 2005-12-30 13:49:34 +0100 (Fri, 30 Dec 2005) The "Revision: ..." line tells you that your snapshot revision is 1372. 2. You downloaded one of the tarballs from http://snapshots.madwifi.org : current snapshot tarballs contain a file named SNAPSHOT, providing similar information to the "svn info" command: Path: trunk URL: http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk Repository Root: http://svn.madwifi.org Repository UUID: 0192ed92-7a03-0410-a25b-9323aeb14dbd Revision: 1372 Last Changed Author: svens Last Changed Rev: 1372 Last Changed Date: 2005-12-30 13:49:34 +0100 (Fri, 30 Dec 2005) Again, the "Revision: ..." line tells you that your snapshot revision is 1372. 3. You installed a precompiled package for your distribution: ask the maintainer of the package what revision was used to build the exact package version that you're refering to. 4. None of the above matches your situation? Let me know. Hope that helps. Bye, Mike |