Hi I'm using the firmware openwrt RC5 on my Asus wl-500g and I changed the minipci wlancard to an Atheros AR5213 XR Chip (AR5004X).
I installed madwifi driver und olsrd on my AP. Now my olsrd shows me that other ap's can send data to me, but my AP isn't able to send data to the other AP's.
Now I thinks thats because of the old Version of the madwifi driver.

kmod-madwifi - 2.4.30brcm+r1208-20060106-1 - Driver for Atheros 802.11a/b/g Mini
madwifi-tools - r1208-20051209-1 - Driver utilities for Atheros 802.11a/b/g Mini

Now I want to know how do I compile a newer version of kmod-madwifi and madwifi-tools for the RC5?

If I compile the kamikaze version of openwrt there is the newest version of madwifi, but I think that i can't use that for RC5.

Hmm, RC5 is very old and obsolete. Even if you compile (a newer one from subversion) your own WR firmware I would not upgrade the madwifi drivers in WR (it's waste of time).

If you don't need the webif GUI I'd recommend you to switch over to a self compiled Kamikaze firmware (brcm-2.6, Kernel 2.6 because you're using a Atheros WiFi card). As you already said, Kamikaze has the newest madwifi driver.

Kamikaze is the future

(Last edited by forum2006 on 9 Jan 2007, 22:13)

Yes I know that but we have here about 190 Ap's that a runnig with the RC5, all of them have a spezial ipkg packet that we need. I can't use this packet in kamikaze than I have to rewrite the scripts myselve for kamikaze and that would take a lot of time.
We have to rewrite those sripts anyway some day but kamikaze is now not stabel anoth to do that. I also read that it will someday completly rewritten.
So is it posibly to compile a new Version and how? I will experiment with kamikaze anyway but would prefere to use the old RC5.

(Last edited by Oconnor on 9 Jan 2007, 22:40)

Ok, you have to update the Makefiles and patches (probably you can take some patches from Kamikaze, I don't know) in:

- whiterussian/openwrt/package/madwifi-tools and
- whiterussian/openwrt/target/linux/package/madwifi

and than rebuild them...

(Last edited by forum2006 on 9 Jan 2007, 23:17)