On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:16:49PM +0530, ravisagar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have Compaq Presario C772TU Laptop. I has Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network > Adapter. Yesterday I installed Fedora 8 but I was not able to enable WiFi. > > 1. I tried configuring WiFi using KNetworkManager, but no luck. > 2. I installed Windows driver (.inf and .sys) file in fedora using NDISwrapper. > When I tried to scan wlan0 I got the error that "Network doesn't support > Scanning: Network is Down". I then tried ifconfig wlan0 up but I got following > error SIOCSIFFLAGS.......... > > How can I enable WiFi on Fedora 8. Is this problem solved in Fedora 9. > > I really love Fedora and don't want to switch to any other OS. If it's the 5007 (see below) the only one supporting it out of the box at this point is the Mandriva "one" CD and possibly other Mandriva versions. Ubuntu doesn't, PCLinuxOS doesn't, ArchLinux doesn't. http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhwireless.html#5007 The chances are that it's AR5007EG card. If so, then the link above gives instructions that have worked for about 90 percent of the folks with the problem. This isn't Fedora though, it's a Linux/Atheros issue. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Angel: She murdered a man right in front of me, and I can't even testify to that fact in a court of law. Cordelia: Well, maybe in night court you could... -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
