Atheros Based Cards and Network Manager
Robert Locke
lists at ralii.com
Sun Apr 2 03:08:26 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:31 -0500, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> As I continue to read this LUG, I am finding out that you can create
> configuration files to work with Atheros-based wireless cards in FC5. I
> cannot find my wireless card (a Linksys wpc 55ag) in Nework Manager.
> How do you create these configuration files to get these wireless cards
> to work and where are they placed? I currently am using FC5. One other
> point - and perhaps this is just my opinion: it is totally unacceptable
> for an operating system to not even be able to find a wireless card
> (which worked perfectly in FC4, I might add) to not be detected, never
> mind getting it to work. I understand that FC5 has just been released,
> but if you have a major investment in wireless cards, they should be
> able to work once you install the proper drivers. In my opinion, this
> is a major show stopper which should have been fixed by now, especially
> since a new kernel has already been released. Well, enough of my
> ranting. Nevertheless, if this problem is not fixed soon, many people
> are not going to use FC5 on laptops.
>
If you are going to rant, be careful where you are pointing the finger.
While you are using a new release of Fedora, you are, perhaps
unwittingly and coincidentally, using a new release of the "unsupported"
madwifi driver, known as madwifi-ng. Under FC4, we were using the old
madwifi code. Again, this code is being packaged by a kind soul over on
livna.org and also by someone at atrpms. The reality of wireless is
that other chipsets that are supported/included in FC are, apparently,
working....
I am just not sure who should get the bugzilla on this. Should it be
reported to Fedora Core - against system-config-network and
NetworkManager; or should it be reported to livna and atrpms to adjust
packaging; or should it be reported to madwifi.org?
As I just pointed out in your earlier thread, I am "getting around" this
using the documented methods of scripting per directions found at
madwifi.org and, on your own machine,
under /usr/share/doc/madwifi-<version>/....
--Rob
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