Still no wireless network on my laptop
Johan Lozano
johan.lozano at tiscali.be
Wed Aug 17 12:45:48 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:56 -0400, Daniel Normolle wrote:
> Johan Lozano wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > i am trying to install a wireless nic on my acer aspire 5024 wlmi
> > without succes.
> > is someone succeeded in such an attempt and if so how did you do it?
> >
> > i tried with the original nic a broadcom 4318 with ndiswrapper and the
> > linuxant way. nothing helps.
> > today i bought a new nic a d-link dwl-g650 and tried also with
> > ndiswrapper as well as with the linuxant manner, again without success.
> > finally i followed the madwafi method and even that was not succesfull.
> >
> > is there anybody who can help me out here?
>
> I was able to get the DWL-G650 working using madwifi under FC3.
>
> Can you be more explicit about the setup, the software and the
> results of the attempted madwifi install?
>
> dpn
>
>
i followed the hints on this link:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=64363
everything goes well until *ifup ath0*
[root at mbarwen ~]# modinfo ath_pci
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/net/ath_pci.ko
parmtype: countrycode:int
parmtype: outdoor:int
parmtype: xchanmode:int
parm: countrycode:Override default country code
parm: outdoor:Enable/disable outdoor use
parm: xchanmode:Enable/disable extended channel mode
parmtype: ifname:charp
parm: ifname:Interface name prefix (default: ath)
author: Errno Consulting, Sam Leffler
description: Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards.
license: Dual BSD/GPL
vermagic: 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0
depends: ath_hal,wlan,ath_rate_sample
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000007sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000012sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000A727d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010B7d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00001014sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000015sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000016sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000017sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000018sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000019sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000168Cd0000001Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
srcversion: 10AFF40770E3A7E9826DCCC
[root at mbarwen ~]# ifup ath0
ath_pci device ath0 does not seem to be present, delaying
initialization.
[root at mbarwen ~]#
and here i am stocked.
any suggestions?
Johan Lozano
MicroBit, Duffel
E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be
GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
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