<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeffrey D. Yuille</b> <<a href="mailto:jeffy5@optonline.net">jeffy5@optonline.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:31 -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:<br>
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<font color="#000000">> No, the Madwifi drivers are "Madwifi-old" or just "Madwifi", I </font>
<font color="#000000">> believe. Also, when I try to configure the card in Gnome, I come to a </font>
<font color="#000000">> place that says, "other wireless cards". In FC5, unlike in FC4, it </font>
<font color="#000000">> gives no name of the chipset to indicate that it even recognizes that </font>
<font color="#000000">> the card is present. Also, when FC4 was installed, all I had to do </font>
<font color="#000000">> was install the kernel modules and drivers and my system would </font>
<font color="#000000">> recognize the card. </font>
<font color="#000000">I'm really sorry to read this thread. I have given up on ndiswrapper </font>
<font color="#000000">with my Linksys WPC54G Cardbus adapter since it freezes the system if I </font>
<font color="#000000">have encryption enabled - works without encryption, but that isn't </font>
<font color="#000000">adequate. So, I bought a madwifi supported Netgear 511T card on e-bay </font>
<font color="#000000">(don't have it yet) expecting it to work correctly from previous posts </font>
<font color="#000000">about wireless networking.</font>
<font color="#000000">It seems to me that wireless networking has regressed tremendously </font>
<font color="#000000">between FC4 and FC5. There have been many posts on this list about a </font>
<font color="#000000">variety of cards that no longer work and people having many problems </font>
<font color="#000000">getting those that do work to do so.</font>
<font color="#000000">I wonder what kind of bugzilla report to make to get someone's attention </font>
<font color="#000000">about this host of problems.</font>
<font color="#000000">Gerry</font>
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You know, Gerry, you're right about that. For that reason, I switched back to FC4 from FC5. Until they can iron out the bugs, I cannot afford to use FC5 due to the fact that I have so much invested in the wireless cards I do have. At least FC4 works without a hitch because it is a more mature OS. But that's only because it has had time for the bugs to be worked out of them. I am sure that this will be the case with FC5 over time.
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https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a></blockquote><div><br><br>Madwifi-old and madwifi-ng both work fine for me on FC5, but not without some issues. The interface is not brought up automatically on boot anymore. I have checked my old configuration, uninstalled and re-installed, nothing seems to get it working again. NetworkManager doesnt seem to work anymore, the only way I can bring the interface up anymore is thru the command line, so i had to resort to shell scripts.
<br><br>Something in FC5 has definately changed as far as wireless goes, and not for the better.<br></div><br></div><br>