Hi everyone, I was able to build a LEAF router in VMWare recently. Everything is working beautifully. This is not a production box, I am using it as a test platform. I am curious, has anyone tried making Madwifi work in this environment? A few notes about my build- #1 I am running VMWare server 1.05 #2 My LEAF version is 3.1 (Bering uClibc) #3 My host OS is White Box Enterprise Linux 4 Respin 2 (Just like RHEL4 without the logos) #4 I followed the procedure to run LEAF on a hard drive. I did not use a disk image. I have LOTS of room to add any packages. :-) A few assumptions on my part #1 The host OS needs to have the drivers loaded so the wireless NIC is detected by the system. #2 The VM will bridge the Wireless NIC to ath0 on the host. My wireless NIC is "running" in the host. That is the drivers are loaded. However, I have not assigned it an IP address or set up AP mode. I set onboot=no. I did this solely so the VM could find a NIC interface to bridge to. I have noticed that my wireless NIC is not found in the VM. However, the exact same setup in a physical machine works just fine. Perhaps I am not loading the correct driver for VMWare within LEAF? I have noticed in several forums some discussion of bridging and madwifi for VMWare. The problem there was solved by a patch- (comment out the following lines) http://madwifi.org/ticket/407 from ath/if_ath.c : 663. #ifdef USE_HEADERLEN_RESV 664. dev->hard_header_len += sizeof(struct ieee80211_qosframe) + 665. sizeof(struct llc) + 666. IEEE80211_ADDR_LEN + 667. IEEE80211_WEP_IVLEN + 668. IEEE80211_WEP_KIDLEN; 669. #ifdef ATH_SUPERG_FF 670. dev->hard_header_len += ATH_FF_MAX_HDR; 671. #endif 672. #endif
Is it possible the driver that is included with the LEAF 3.1 distro doesn't have this patch applied? Maybe my problem lies somewhere else? Any pointers you can give are appreciated. Thanks. -Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
