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E’ uscita la nuova versione dei drivers MadWifi, la 0.9.3 appunto.
MadWifi è il diminutivo per Multiband Atheros Driver for Wifi. In altre parole si tratta del progetto che fornisce i device driver per far funzionare schede wireless basate su chipset Atheros.
Il driver funziona in maniera tale da far risultare la scheda WLAN come una normale interfaccia di rete del sistema.
Questo consente di configurare il dispositivo usando i tools più comuni come: ifconfig, iwconfig e similia.

L’HOME PAGE del progetto dove reperire i drivers.

Le caratteristiche principali:
- Operational Modes:
- sta -- Station, a.k.a. infrastructure or managed. This device acting as typical WLAN client station. This is the default mode if not otherwise specified.
- ap -- Access Point, a.k.a. master. This device acts as the Access Point for other WLAN client stations.
- adhoc -- Ad-hoc. a.k.a. IBSS mode. This device is in a peer-to-peer(s) WLAN without the need for an Access Point.
- ahdemo -- Ad-hoc Demo. This is an older, non-802.11 compliant, proprietary ad-hoc mode.
- monitor -- Monitor. This device can be used to "sniff" raw 802.11 frames.
- wds -- Wireless Distribution System. This device can be used to create large wireless networks by linking several Access Points together.
- WDS support for transparent bridging over WLAN links.
- Supports Wireless Extensions API.
- One driver for miniPCI and cardbus devices. USB devices are not yet supported.
- Most of the current Atheros WLAN chipsets are supported.
- Supports WEP and WPA/802.11i.
- Support for 802.1x authentication in AP mode.

Requisiti:
- Linux Kernel 2.4.23+ and 2.6.x series (Others may work, but are unsupported)
- Crypto AP support in kernel (option CONFIG_CRYPTO)
- Sysctl support in kernel (option CONFIG_SYSCTL)
- Wireless Extensions support in kernel (v14+ required, v17+ recommended; option CONFIG_NET_RADIO)
- Same GCC version used to compile the kernel (otherwise, "Invalid module format" errors may occur)