Re: [Madwifi-users] 64bit

[James <bjl...@lo...>]

On 12/24/2005 2:51 PM James spoke:
> 
> I kept the version of madwifi from 20041008 so I could get networking if
> I need to.
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with my new computer:
> ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386
> (/tmp/madwifi/ath_hal/hal.o) to format elf64-x86-64
> (/tmp/madwifi/ath_hal/ath_hal.o) is not supported
> 
> It was a pain but I used Windows to download the wireless tools
> (wireless_tools.28.pre10.tar.gz) and some of the new madwifi snapshots
> (madwifi-ng-current.tar.gz (20051222) and then
> madwifi-ng-r1347-20051130.tar.gz).
> 
> I thought the following should work:
> 
> modprobe ath_pci
> wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
> modprobe wlan_scan_sta
> ifconfig ath0 up
> iwlist ath0 scan
> iwconfig ath0 essid "dlinkg"
> 
> ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.ath0
> 
> /etc/init.d/net.lo start
> /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start
> 
> It seemed to but 'links2' works causes a kernel panic.
> 'ping' seems to work all the time.
> 
> Is everything supposed to be 64bit clean?
> 
> I don't have any 32bit stuff on Linux.
> 
> I have kernel-2.6.14.3 but I'm going to try 2.6.14.4.
> 
> Is there any way of logging the kernel panic information?

Apparently I'm not alone. :-(

http://www.madwifi.org/ticket/74