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mandriva 2008 madwifi

I have mandriva 2008 on a dual boot with xp on my dell laptop. I have the built in dell wifi broadcom driver and I know inorder to use aircrack I need to use madwifi, how do I set up madwifi with my built in dell wirless lan 1390 driver? I am a noob in linux and I do have madwifi installed through the software management. I just wnat to kno whow to set up wifi using it

mjutras

Here is an hoto to help you

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

merctke

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but will this work on a broadcam built in driver?

mjutras

here is the hardware supported list:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility

madwifi is a driver

merctke

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is it possible to install the native driver? if so how? I AM CLUELESS

mjutras

what do you get while running command: iwconfig

merctke

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eth0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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merctke

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sudo command does not exist in mandriva, I have found and tried this link before but I am not having any luck. I am kinda hating mandriva, what is a good linux OS?

merctke

ASKER

It worked, there is an adjustment to the code fo mandriva and opensuse though since the sudo does not work. If you use the same exact code but take out the sudo part so it reads bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o instead of 'sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o' then it will definitely work

mjutras

yeah well the sudo command is to run a command in root mode, but as you noticed it depends on the distrib. On mandriva you may be able to log in as root so you may not need the sudo command.

I usually stick to Ubuntu distribs since its compatible with a very large amount of unix stuff and it's always up to date!