John DeDourek wrote:
Michael A Peters wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:21 +0900, Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
Hi All.
I am running Fedora Core 6 from an Atholon 1000 cpu, with normal
wired DSL Access (Realtek8139). I have an Asus M2N-TVM motherboard
with a Atholon 3500 single core awaiting installation of Fedora Core
6. However, this box has a D-LINK DWL-G520 WLan Card, and therin lies
the problem.
On a previous install, Fedora cannot pick up the wLan Card. I know
from my eComStation install that the DWL-G520 uses the Atheros
Chipset with the Identifier of 168c:0013. Googling "Atheros" will
bring me to a site, that will give all the specs of my card.
My understanding is that Madwifi is like a sort of generic wrapper,
where once it is installed (including, as I understand - linux kernel
updates), it will allow the parent Fedora system to pick up the card
(as one of many Atheros Cards)....I supply the ssid etc....and bingo,
we have wireless! :-)
Problem with me is: I am very very raw in Linux. :-[ I think
I've seen somewhere where it has happened, but cannot follow the path
to acheive it. Is there anyone who has succeeded in Getting Wireless
to go using this card, FC6 and Madwifi? I can go "walklan" between
these two machines, as required. If there is anything I've missed,
please let me know.
I look forward to your help, and thank you in advance.
First - verify that your card is atheros.
/sbin/lspci |grep -i atheros
You should see atheros mentioned in the output if your card is atheros.
If it is - set up to use rpm.livna.org:
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repoview/livna-release-0-6-1.html
Install that package.
Once installed so that you can use the rpm.livna.org repository -
yum install kmod-madwifi
That should do it for you.
Unfortunately, this may not currently work. Fedora Core 6 (and Fedora
Core 5)
have updated to the 2.6.20 kernel last week. Livna claims that the madwifi
snapshot madwifi that they are using will not build for 2.6.20,
therefore, there
is no kernel module for this update. They claim to be waiting for
"upstream"
to fix the problem.
It's all good now. Madwifi just released 0.9.3. Matthias just released
the dkms-based RPMs for it on freshrpms :
http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1116
Works great with 2.6.20
