How do I install the Cisco Aironet PCI wireless adapter?
WirelessBeginning with Release 4.2 CDRouter includes support for the madwifi wireless driver. Madwifi is an alternative wireless driver designed specifically for 802.11a/b/g PCI and mini-PCI adapters utilizing Atheros based wireless chipsets.
Installation
Madwifi is natively supported in many newer Linux distributions. In most cases any available Atheros based PCI or mini-PCI adapters will be automatically detected by the kernel during installation. As a result, the appropriate madwifi driver modules should be loaded automatically in most cases. Note that wireless interfaces that are using the madwifi drivers will appear as ath0 in the output of the /sbin/ifconfig -a command.
In cases where madwifi must be installed manually, please install the latest stable release (we recommend v0.9.4 or later) from the software repositories available on your system or from the madwifi-project.org website.
If your system is not automatically detecting and loading the madwifi drivers after installing the Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g PCI adapter, please contact QA Cafe support for additional assistance.
Driver Module
The madwifi driver module that will be loaded for the Cisco Aironet 802.1a/b/g PCI adapter is the ath_pci module. This driver module can be unloaded using the rmmod command:
rmmod ath_pci
Likewise, the ath_pci module can be loaded using the modprobe command:
modprobe ath_pci
Note that the ath_pci module should be automatically loaded during the boot process on most newer Linux distributions.
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