Patched Compat-wireless in LMDE (aircrack-ng mon -1 fixed)

[ammon]

***UP4***

## Update 1 ; just never version of compat-wireless

## Update 2; new version of compat-wireless (3.5-3)
Anyway, for start make sure that you have all build-essentials and headers for you current kernel, which is 3.2 for latest UP4.

We will compile compat wireless from kernel 3.5 (so this is update of wireless stack too), this version worked for me and it is just fine.

1) Download compat-wireless

Use your favorite browser and http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat- ... sn.tar.bz2 / save it wherever you want.

Or simple

wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat- ... sn.tar.bz2

2) Now extract the archive

tar jxvf compat-wireless-*tar.bz2

3) Open terminal in compat-wireless directory:

cd compat-wireless-*

3) Download needed patches:

wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211 ... k_v1.patch

4) Apply the patch:

patch -p1 < mac80211.compat08082009.wl_frag+ack_v1.patch

5) Compile/Install

make clean
make
sudo make install

Now, easiest way is to reboot.

Enjoy working aircrack-ng/updated wifi drivers.

If you have any trubles/questions post here I will help if I can.

[noah++]

Thanks, pal! I used your howto to grab a fresher RTL8187 wireless driver. The one in 3.2.9 is awful. The new one seems fine so far.

For posterity, I would only change your post to instruct us to recurse from the http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/ directory to find the latest tarball, instead pointing us directly to that particular 3.3 subdirectory. Someone using your howto probably wants to be on the bleeding edge. In fact, 3.4 is already available there, and that's what I downloaded. (It's unfortunate there's no 'latest' symlink there!)

[ammon]

Hello, I'm glad I helped.

It is not nice to point people to bleeding edge tarball, because sometimes it can fail to build or be unstable.

There is my reason to use "stable" tarball.

I will update my guide to 3.4 when it reaches .1 (3.4.1)

[ammon]

Update to newer compat-wireless, dropped redundant patch.

[fluffernutjob]

Sorry for the basic question, but what is LMDE? Your post is a very detailed explanation of a problem I want to solve and I want to make sure my setup is compatible.

[ammon]

Bump,

Update to 3.5

[shideneyu]

Hi,

Thanks I followed this tutorial for my Awus036h.
I would like to know, How can I be sure that after the "make install", this is the new drivers that are being used and not the former one?