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| Author: | InsaniKamil [ Tue May 15, 2012 9:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | HowTo: Updated wifi drivers w/packet injection |
Here are the steps I followed to update the wifi drivers on my Efika MX Smarttop to support packet injection under kernel 2.6.31.14.27-efikamx. This also seemed to provide better connection stability. Should also work for Ubuntu. Install packages: Code:
apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-2.6.31.14.27-efikamx git-core
The kernel headers package is missing a directory required to build compat-wireless, so we need to clone the kernel source from git and hackily rectify the problem:
Code:
git clone git://gitorious.org/~brainstorm/efikamx/efika-kernel.git
Grab and build the latest compat-wireless rtx200 drivers from http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/ .. I used compat-wireless-2012-05-10 .. Your mileage will vary depending on which version you choose.
cp -R efika-kernel/arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach /usr/include Code:
wget http://linuxwireless.org/download/compa ... 10.tar.bz2
Now you must blacklist the old rt2870sta driver so it does not load on boot
tar xvf compat-wireless-2012-05-10.tar.bz2 cd compat-wireless-2012-05-10 scripts/driver-select rt2x00 make; make install Code:
echo blacklist rt2870sta >>/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Reboot the machine and you will be using the new driver. Works as a normal wireless client, with aircrack-ng, reaver, etc.If you are running the same kernel I am, and would like to skip most of the above, download the binaries I have built from http://www.slingfile.com/file/UjvSGas83X . Copy the 'updates' directory to /lib/modules/`uname -r`, run depmod -a, and blacklist the old module. |
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| Author: | claunia [ Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HowTo: Updated wifi drivers w/packet injection |
Great, but in my case it keeps complaining about firmware. "Failed to request firmware". Ofc I have the firmware files on /lib/firmware, tested with two revisions, the 8Kb one is working on another machine (not an Efika) with a USB dongle, and the both work with rt2870sta. Could you post your firmware or at least its MD5 hash and the exact location and name? EDIT: The problem was that compat-wireless uses an udev script that didn't get installed neither is distributed with your binary package. |
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| Author: | wschaub [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HowTo: Updated wifi drivers w/packet injection |
Quote: Great, but in my case it keeps complaining about firmware.
Hi, You might be better off using my debian package instead you can read about it in this thread here:"Failed to request firmware". Ofc I have the firmware files on /lib/firmware, tested with two revisions, the 8Kb one is working on another machine (not an Efika) with a USB dongle, and the both work with rt2870sta. Could you post your firmware or at least its MD5 hash and the exact location and name? EDIT: The problem was that compat-wireless uses an udev script that didn't get installed neither is distributed with your binary package. http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/vi ... f=7&t=2278 I also have the packaging on github at https://github.com/wschaub/compat-wireless the armel version might well work on maverick as well as on Squeeze but I haven't tested it on maverick. My pacakge does install the udev rule and the firmware loader script that is missing above. you can also find the missing bits at https://github.com/wschaub/compat-wirel ... re_install <-- script that installs the udev stuff https://github.com/wschaub/compat-wirel ... aster/udev <-- where the udev rules and scripts are located. |
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| Author: | wschaub [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HowTo: Updated wifi drivers w/packet injection |
In case anyone that is running maverick is interested the package does work on maverick. but you need to have linux-image-2.6.31.14.27-efikamx installed (which you can find here: http://steubentech.com/~talon/Efika-MX/kernels/latest/) |
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| Author: | claunia [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HowTo: Updated wifi drivers w/packet injection |
Too late! :p I suggest a wiki with tips and tricks! |
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| Author: | wschaub [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HowTo: Updated wifi drivers w/packet injection |
Quote: Too late! :p
Already wrote it. I have an article at http://library.powerdeveloper.net/index ... atWireless I suggest a wiki with tips and tricks! ready now. |
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