Howto configure Wireless Card in FC5

Chris Jones linux at stow-jones.co.uk
Sat Jun 3 17:44:38 UTC 2006


I have FC5 on a vanilla Athlon 64  CPU. I also have a Netgear WPN311 NIC.

My question is-
How do I get this NIC to talk to my LAN which is hosted with a Netgear 
DG834PN ADSL/Router. I have tried to install the madwifi rpms from 
atrpms, but the wireless card does not seem to be seen.

The output from iwconfig is:-
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

... from ifconfig is:
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:8C:2E:52
          inet addr:192.168.0.22  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fe8c:2e52/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:552268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:885713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:340400719 (324.6 MiB)  TX bytes:107766838 (102.7 MiB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:980429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:980429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:6920054619 (6.4 GiB)  TX bytes:6920054619 (6.4 GiB)

... output from uname -a is:
Linux x.x.x 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 #1 SMP Thu May 4 21:16:04 EDT 2006 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



All help will be very gratefully received.

Thanks
Chris Jones




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