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+madwifi - a Linux kernel device driver for Wireless LAN chipsets from Atheros.
+
+A wireless card compatibility matrix is available at:
+http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
+
+By default the script will build the madwifi kernel module for the currently
+running kernel.  If you would like to build the madwifi driver for a different
+kernel version, two things are required:
+    1) kernel source in /usr/src/linux-<version>
+    2) run the script as: KERNELVERSION=<version> sh madwifi-driver.SlackBuild
+In place of <version> use only the version, not the full path. The <version>
+string from 1) and 2) must be identical.
+    Examples: KERNELVERSION=2.4.33.3 or KERNELVERSION=2.6.18
+The kernel module will then be installed to /lib/modules/<version>/....
+You may use this SlackBuild to build the madwifi module for as many *different*
+kernels as you like and they can be installed alongside each other without
+conflict.
+
+NOTE: MadWifi 0.9.2.1 and earlier do NOT compile against kernel 2.6.19 and
+      higher.  MadWifi 0.9.3 will address this issue.  SlackBuilds for
+      madwifi-tools and madwifi-driver will be updated when 0.9.3 is
+      released.
+
+Requirements:
+
+Kernel requirements:
+    Linux Kernel 2.4.23+ or 2.6.x series 
+    Kernel source and headers of running kernel 
+
+    No module versioning support 
+        option CONFIG_MODVERSIONS 
+    Wireless Extensions support in kernel 
+        v14+ required, v17+ recommended; option CONFIG_NET_RADIO 
+    Sysctl support in kernel 
+        option CONFIG_SYSCTL 
+    Crypto API support in kernel 
+        option CONFIG_CRYPTO 
+    HMAC support 
+        option CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC 
+    AES support (for WPA networks) 
+        option CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES
+
+Requirements for configuring the wireless card:
+  madwifi-tools -- suite of tools designed specifically for madwifi-supported cards
+  iwconfig -- part of "wireless-tools" package in /n for Slackware 11.0
+  wpa_supplicant -- for WPA encrypted networks. 
+                 -- Available in /testing for Slackware 11.0
+
+NOTE: You can place the SlackBuild and slack-desc.{tools,driver} files
+      in the same directory without conflicts, and then you only have to
+      keep one copy of the madwifi source code around...
+