i’ve been trying to download the WLAN firmwares for Haiku but none of the scripts that i found (the ones with wget and git) would work, so i’ve analyzed it and i found a download link. Both of them don’t exist anymore or can’t be reached so i can’t download any firmwares for the WLAN in order for it to work. I’ve also tried using the wayback machine but it didn’t worked because the site wasn’t archived. Can someone tell me where to find them in these days and also how to download the wpa_supplicant extension please?
What firmware are you trying to download? In general this is only needed for specific old cards.
Looks like you’ve been reading some really old documentation. Those scripts haven’t been necessary for several betas.
Should be installed by default, but you can double-check with
pkgman install wpa_supplicant.
For the Atheros AR5B93
Unfortunately the pc I am running Haiku with has a problem with the LAN port… my other computers have Linux and MacOS. Could ypu send me a link where I could find the wpa_supplicant extension?
wpa_supplicant is always installed you don’t need to download it.
The firmware script won’t help you with this card. It is only for old cards that have firmware with licenses that we are not allowed to distribute. That card does not fall under that. If it does not work then it simply is not supported at the moment.
You can open a ticket for support of that card if you want, or in more practical terms you can use a USB wifi or ethernet adapater.
That is an exceptionally old card (draft n, so 2007 or 2008 probably) and as far as I can see, is not supported by either source of drivers for Haiku - FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
Does someone know how to create a driver for Atheros AR5B93 in order for it to work with Haiku?
Unless you are running something ancient like Haiku Beta2, wpa_supplicant is part of the default Haiku install. You don’t need to download and install it.
If you can’t run pkgman, just look in /boot/system/packages There should be a package there called wpa_supplicantXXXXXX.hpkg with the x’s being version number and architecture identifiers.
Still, if you insist: https://depot.haiku-os.org/#!/pkg/wpa_supplicant/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/2/11/haiku.0/-/1/x86_64?bcguid=bc395-VSEW