Hi Phil,
Thank you for your reply.It's not a good news.If i install my CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in a new PC,
and plug an other wireless card(mini-pci card with Atheros AR9223 chiset ) into the mother board.
Could i get a proper driver and make it work?
Now i have done something for that.I installed nidswrapper using the driver in WinXP.
The following message will be helpful:
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[root@pighead ~]# lspci |grep AR9
03:01.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
[root@pighead ~]# lspci -n |grep 03:01
03:01.0 0280: 168c:0029 (rev 01)
[root@pighead ~]# ndiswrapper -l
netathw : driver installed
device (168C:0029) present
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And i have make the driver i got work partly.It can detect the card and scan the APs.
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[root@pighead ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up
[root@pighead ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:2B:2B:8E:19:65
inet addr:172.3.0.7 Bcast:172.3.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3471 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:288157 (281.4 KiB) TX bytes:26183 (25.5 KiB)
Interrupt:177
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:48:6D:B0:05
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:225 Memory:febf0000-fec00000
[root@pighead ~]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:300 Mb/s
Encryption key:off
Power Management max timeout:0us mode:All packets received
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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I could get an essid list through "iwlist wlan0 scan" :
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wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 06:34:CB:30:19:DC
ESSID:"wcp-03"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-97 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=500
Extra:atim=0
...
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And i got the following error message if i tried to connect an essid in the list.
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ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
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I don't know how to fix it, can you give some advice.Am i in the wrong way.
And i want to known if my kernel(2.6.18-128.el5) is too old to support my
wireless card. :-(
Any help will be appreciated.
2011/6/11 Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner@xxxxxxxx>
liming wu wrote on 06/07/2011 11:27 PM:
> i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed myYou would probably have a better chance of getting drivers to work if
> CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in VMware.
you were not using a seriously obsolete release. The current and only
supported release is 5.6.
Phil
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