FC3, Linuxant, stock kernel (2.6.9-1.667) and 4k stacks

Don Levey fedora-list at the-leveys.us
Wed Nov 10 18:45:44 UTC 2004


fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Don Levey wrote:
>
>> fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Don Levey wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was able to download FC3 on Monday, and so yesterday like a
>>>> dutiful husband I went t oupgrade my wife's laptop yesterday (Dell
>>>> Inspiron 1100, with D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card).  Previously
>>>> (FC1), the wireless card was working with the Linuxant package (I
>>>> tried both ndiswrapper and madwifi and was unable to get either to
>>>> work), so I wanted to continue using it in FC3.
>>>
>>> Hmm.. 'madwifi' doesn't work? Are you sure its atheros chipset? I've
>>> tried madwifi briefly with FC3 (thinkpad with ibm a/b card - which
>>> is atheros) - without problems.
>>>
>>> Satish
>>
>> I was unable to get it to even compile.  But keep in mind that this
>> was with FC1.  I haven't tried it yet with FC3; I want to try out
>> the thing I paid for first.
>
> Ok - your experience with MADWIFI is a year old :). Trying the current
> CVS shouldn't cost you much time.
>
> cvs co madwifi (or grab snapshot from
> http://madwifi.otaku42.de/2004/11/) make
> make install
> modprobe ath_pci
>
> Satish

I'll probably try that also, assuming the kids get to sleep on time
tonight...
Thanks!
 -Don




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