> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Yesterday I ran a Live CD of F9 (i386 KDE version) on a Toshiba laptop. >> I found it could see my Wifi network but somewhat erratically, i.e. the >> connection would bounce up and down every few minutes. The access point >> is about 6 feet away so it's not a signal issue (and my phone connects >> with no problem so the AP is OK as well). >> >> I then went ahead and installed F9 on the hard disk, plugged in an >> Ethernet cable and updated everything via yum. Now the Wifi doesn't work >> at all. I even installed the latest NetworkManager from >> updates-testing-newkey but no joy, even after rebooting. >> >> All I can see in dmesg is a few lines saying: >> >> ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0: registered as 'phy0' >> ath5k: pky0: Atheros AR2424 chip found (MAC: 0xaO, PHY: 0x61) >> ath5k: pky0: noise floor calibration timeout (2422MHz) >> ath5k: pky0: noise floor calibration timeout (2437MHz) >> >> As regards ifconfig, there are a couple of new interfaces: wlan0 and >> wmaster0, both marked as UP but with no IP addresses. >> >> wpa_supplicant is running, dhclient is not. >> >> The physical Wifi switch is on and the light is lit. >> >> "iwlist wlan0 scanning" gives no results. > > Just to add that I do know about Madwifi, the non-free driver available > from Livna. I've installed it before on pre-F9 systems and have usually > managed to get it working after a fair amount of agony. I was just > hoping not to have to go that route with F9 as it is claimed to have > Atheros support now. > > In any case, I suspect the problem isn't in the actual driver itself but > in some interaction with NM. Just a side note...unsupported by Red Hat/Fedora does not mean non-free. The MadWifi drivers are, as I recall, open source. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
