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The SoftMAC is still very<br />incomplete. So do not expect to do any fancy stuff like WPA<br />or something line that with it.<br />Please be patient, thanks. :)<br /><br />If you want to try the driver, a few steps have to be done manually,<br />because the SoftMAC doesn't do them automatically, yet:<br /><br />insmod ieee80211softmac.ko<br />insmod bcm430x.ko<br />ifup ethX<br />iwconfig ethX channel YOUR_AP_CHANNEL<br />iwconfig ethX essid ESSID_OF_YOUR_AP<br />In between you should pray from time to time.<br /><br />If it works without crashes, cool. :)<br />If it crashes, well, fix it or send us a complete OOPS message<br />including detailed information about the device. Most information<br />about the device is printed on insmod. Including this information is<br />_important_, because there are so many different devices around.<br /><br />Do _not_ expect to get any 802.11a based device working, yet. Only b/g<br />devices should "work".<br /><br />BCM43xx driver:<br /><a href="http://bcm43xx.berlios.de">http://bcm43xx.berlios.de</a><br />Required SoftMAC Layer:<br /><a href="http://softmac.sipsolutions.net">http://softmac.sipsolutions.net</a><br /><br />Have fun.<br /><br /><br /><br />"Jetzt Handykosten senken mit klarmobil - 15 Ct./Min.! 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