need advice how to configure madwifi in fedora

[Peter Boy]

Folks,

I happily own an IBM Thinkpad T40p with an integrated mini-pci wifi card
with an atheros chipset. The madwifi project is developing a driver for
it, using a binary-only hal library.

I could compile and install the driver, I could manually configure it
using iwconfig an ifconfig and I could successfully ping. So it
basically works.

But: How can I integrate it into the Fedora network configuration
scenario?

After reboot kudzu detected new hardware, added an "alias eth1 ath_pci"
entry to /etc/modules.conf and created a
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 script which is mirrored in
/etc/sysconfig/networking  drivers/ and profiles/default somehow. 

If I start redhat-config-network there is an appropriate device eth1.
But 
- it is not recognized as a wireless device so I can'nt configure it 
and if I activate it 
- there is an error message: device eth1 seems to be missing.


I just don't have a clue how to start that beast. Please, could someone
give some advice or a hint, where to find documentation?

Thanks
Peter






/var/log/messages says:

Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ath_hal: 0.9.5.18
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: wlan: 0.7.1.1 BETA (Sam Leffler
<sam at errno.com>)
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler
<sam at errno.com>)
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps
18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps
11Mbps
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ath0: 802.11 address:
00:05:4e:41:7d:62
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ath0: Atheros 5211: mem=0xc0210000,
irq=11
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ath_pci: driver unloaded
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: wlan: driver unloaded
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ath_hal: driver unloaded
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter
core team
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver -
version 5.1.13-k1
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Intel
Corporation.
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.0
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.0
Nov 16 12:36:26 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:00.0
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network
Connection
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter
core team
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps
Full Duplex
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: ath_hal: 0.9.5.18
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: wlan: 0.7.1.1 BETA (Sam Leffler
<sam at errno.com>)
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler
<sam at errno.com>)
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps
18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps
11Mbps
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: ath0: 802.11 address:
00:05:4e:41:7d:62
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: ath0: Atheros 5211: mem=0xc0210000,
irq=11
Nov 16 12:36:27 littlePiet kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22


lspci says:

02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 101e (rev 03)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0012 (rev 01)


lsmod says

ath_pci                32336   0  (unused)
wlan                   47656   1  [ath_pci]
ath_hal               109696   1  [ath_pci]
e1000                  71616   1