Unable to get Atheros based drivers working

[David Cary Hart]

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:33:57 -0500
Robert Locke <lists at ralii.com> opined:
> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 14:29 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:19:31 -0500
> > "Jeffrey D. Yuille" <jeffy5 at optonline.net> opined:
> > > I have a Linksys Wireless card, model wpc55ag.  I am using a
> > > Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop and have FC5 installed with the Gnome
> > > desktop. This card worked perfectly under FC4, using the
> > > madwifi drivers but I cannot get it recognized in FC5.  I would
> > > click on Desktop-System Settings-Network, I would come upon the
> > > Networking Configuration tool. When I click on New-Wireless
> > > Connection, I would only see "other wireless cards".  The
> > > system does not even see my card, despite already having
> > > installed the kmod-madwifi drivers.  How can I corrct this
> > > problem?  Is this a problem for others (or is this a bug?) ? 
> > > 
> > Do you have the alias (eg alias ath0 ath_pci) in modprobe.conf?
> > 
> 
> Actually, with the packaging from livna, it is found
> in /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi rather than directly
> in /etc/modprobe.conf...
> 
> alias wifi0 ath_pci
> alias ath0 ath_pci
> options ath_pci autocreate=sta
> 
> Though I am experiencing the same problem.  system-config-network is
> insisting that the wireless is an Ethernet card.  So I gave up and
> just wrote a script that I run by hand when not wired....
> 
> iwconfig ath0 essid "yourssidhere" key "yourwepkeyhere"
> iwpriv ath0 authmode 2
> iwpriv ath0 mode 2
> ifconfig ath0 up
> dhclient -1 ath0
> 
> I believe this may be related to the madwifi-ng code not being
> properly recognized by system-config-network given the pair of
> layers here with both wifi0 and ath0 being established....
> 

Yes. I had the same problem. Simple. Add alias ath0 ath_pci to
modprobe.conf and you will have another device identified as
wireless. I believe that I deleted the other references.
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