Re: Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

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Bob,

I blacklisted ath5k and reinstalled madwifi but no luck. Is this problem rectified in Fedora 9?

-Ravi

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Bob Arendt <rda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been able to use the ath5k driver, though it doesn't seem to work
as reliably the madwifi "ath_pci" driver.

If you're using madwifi, you need to add:
blacklist ath5k
to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and reboot.

I've been using the svn trunk pretty successfully against the new kernels:
svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk madwifi
cd madwifi
make install

If you install a new kernel, make sure you do a "make clean" before
another "make install", to rebuild and install against the new kernel.
By default it builds against the current kernel.  To build against a
different version:
k=2.6.24.4-64.fc8
env KERNELRELEASE=$k KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/$k/build make install

ravisagar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I tried MadWiFi also this morning. I followed the steps mentioned here http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

When I did *modprobe ath_pci *I got error that ath_pci is unknown interface.

:(

Ravi



On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM, KH KH <kwizart@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:kwizart@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

   2008/4/21, ravisagar@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ravisagar@xxxxxxxxx>
   <ravisagar@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ravisagar@xxxxxxxxx>>:

    > 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.

   Fedora has the ath5k builtin kernel (you may need a newer kernel)
   if your chipset isn't supported by ath5k yet, you can give a try on
   the madwifi project.
   Third part fedora repositories are packaging prebuild kmod for madwifi
   so you won't have to compile it yourself for Fedora 8

   Now you shoudn't need to use ndiswrapper with any atheros chipsets
   (unless newer models using ar5007 on 64bit and some older atheros
   usb).

   Nicolas (kwizart)

    > I really love Fedora and don't want to switch to any other OS.
    >
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