Wireless DWL-G510 driver on fedora4

[Steven Stern]

Luciano Costa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried to install and configure the driver for DWL-G510 d-link on 
> fedora 4. Fisrtly, I installed following rpm packages:
> 
> madwifi-kmdl-2.6.14*
> madwifi-0.9.6.0-18*
> 
> reboot
> 
> and when I restarted the machine, it search the wireless driver and 
> shows the message:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Error for wireless request "Set mode" (8B06)
> SET failed on device ath0; Invalid argument
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> When I see the configuration in the system setup of network  manager, 
> it's  shown this:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> ath0(Atheros Communication, Inc..Unknown device 001a)
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> What should I do ?!?!
> Have someone here that installed wireless driver for DWL-G510 (Atheros's 
> driver) on fedora  ?!?!

I use the "old" version of Madwifi and build from source from 
http://www.madwifi.org.  I've not been able to get the "madwifi-ng" 
version to work.

Each time I install a new kernel, I have to boot into single user mode 
and use make;make install to update the drivers with the stuff needed 
for the current kernel, then reboot into normal mode.

The error you report above can be fixed in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0  by adding "RATE=Auto" to the 
file, replacing any other "RATE=" line.


-- 

   Steve