The following hardware was installed:
Hardware went smoothly. No incompatability problems despite a few ASUS products in there. Installed RedHat 8.0. Picked the custom install so as not to get lots of junk that I didn't want installed. Defintely no X.
Building A Kernel
Installing Wireless wlan-ng Driver
Installing Wireless hostap Driver
Installing Ethereal
Installing Kismet
Installing Fake AP
Wardriving :-)
Quake III
After installing I recompiled the kernel to make sure everything worked before proceeding:
make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install make install |
Hit the first problem on make install got the following error messages:
sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.18-14custom bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/System.map "" + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']' + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']' + exec /sbin/installkernel 2.4.18-14custom bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/System.map '' grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/arch/i386/boot' |
Apparently RedHat make install does not support the lilo loader any more, and only supports grub loader, which I was not using. Solution was to update the /etc/lilo.conf file myself.
prompt
timeout=50
default=Steves-linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
read-only
append="root=LABEL=/"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14custom
label=Steves-linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14custom.img
read-only
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I downloaded and installed the latest wlan-ng driver from AbsoluteValue Systems. I tried linux-wlan-ng-0.1.15 whcih gave me some grief. Firstly it compained that it could not find ngcc or nld. There are no such programs as these - the driver package is talking rubbish. I simply symbolic linked /usr/sbin/gcc and /usr/sbin/ld. This was enough to get the compile underway. I then got the following errors when compiling:
-o wland wland.o ../shared/p80211types.o ../shared/p80211meta.o ../shared/p80211metamsg.o ../shared/p80211metamib.o wland.o: In function `msg2command': wland.o(.text+0x407): undefined reference to `sprintf_R1d26aa98' wland.o(.text+0x517): undefined reference to `sprintf_R1d26aa98' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [wland] Error 1 |
This is something to do with versions of kernels. I didn't have much time to mess around with this so went back to an earlier version that I know worked on my laptop. I used linux-wlan-ng-0.1.13
This compile complained about SIOCSIWNAME undefined in prism2wext.c. In newer RedHat kernels this has been replaced by SIOCSIWCOMMIT. Just edit the file prism2wext.c and replace SIOCSIWNAME with SIOCSIWCOMMIT.
Bingo. Compiled. I now have a PCI wireless driver. Time to see if it works.
To test use modprobe prism2_pci. If successful check /var/log/messages
Dec 20 16:15:15 kimi kernel: init_module: prism2_pci.o: 0.1.13 Loaded Dec 20 16:15:15 kimi kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_pci Dec 20 16:15:15 kimi kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0 Dec 20 16:15:15 kimi kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:04.2 Dec 20 16:15:15 kimi kernel: A Prism2.5 PCI device found, phymem:0xe2000000, irq:10 Dec 20 16:15:15 kimi kernel: , mem:0xce8d0000 Dec 20 16:15:16 kimi /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup wlan0 |
Rebooted and checked the wlan0 interface came up and bingo one Wireless network! Not that happy about this driver. It does not use the wireless tools. Also it does not support the Host AP features of my Netgear MA311 card. So I cannot use the amusing Fake AP tool.
Decided to abandon using the wlan-ng wireless driver and try the hostap driver instead. I used the latest hostap-2002-10-12 version.
This version compiled and installed first time with no problems:
make hostap make pci make install_pci |
WLAN_DEVICES="wlan0"
wlandevice_config()
{
case "$1" in
*)
#=======ENABLE========================================
# Do we want to enable the card at all? Set to 'n' if you don't
# want the card initialized for normal operation. Helpful for
# (re)loading flash or for test purposes.
WLAN_ENABLE=y
#=======USER MIB SETTINGS=============================
# You can add the assignments for various MIB items
# of your choosing to this variable, separated by
# whitespace. The wlan-ng script will then set each one.
# Just uncomment the variable and set the assignments
# the way you want them.
#USER_MIBS="p2CnfRoamingMode=1"
#=======WEP===========================================
# [Dis/En]able WEP. Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true
dot11PrivacyInvoked=false # true|false
dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 # 0|1|2|3
dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true # true|false, in AP this means WEP
# is required for all STAs
# If PRIV_GENSTR is not empty, use PRIV_GENTSTR to generate
# keys (just a convenience)
PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/nwepgen # nwepgen, Neesus compatible
PRIV_KEY128=false # keylength to generate
PRIV_GENSTR=""
# or set them explicitly. Set genstr or keys, not both.
dot11WEPDefaultKey0= # format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx or
dot11WEPDefaultKey1= # xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:
xx:xx:xx
dot11WEPDefaultKey2= # e.g. 01:20:03:40:05 or
dot11WEPDefaultKey3= # 01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:
0b:0c:0d
#=======SELECT STATION MODE===================
IS_ADHOC=n # y|n, y - adhoc, n - infrastructure
#=======INFRASTRUCTURE STATION START===================
# SSID is all we have for now
AuthType="opensystem" # opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP)
DesiredSSID="Wireless"
#=======ADHOC STATION START============================
SSID="Wireless" # SSID
BCNINT=100 # Beacon interval (in Kus)
CHANNEL=6 # DS channel for BSS (1-14, depends
# on regulatory domain)
BASICRATES="2 4" # Rates for mgmt&ctl frames (in 500Kb/s)
OPRATES="2 4 11 22" # Supported rates in BSS (in 500Kb/s)
;;
esac
}
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modprobe hostap_pci iwconfig wlan0 essid Wireless iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed |
To test use modprobe hostap_pci. If successful check /var/log/messages: