Howto configure Wireless Card in FC5

[Chris Jones]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 06:44:38PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
>   
>> ... 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
>>     
>
> ATrpms' packages are currently for 2122, so you'll need to update your
> kernel first and then
>
> yum install madwifi madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r`
>
> follow the documentation on madwifi.org to setup the card thereafter.
>
> BTW if you are not sure whether the model you are using is supported
> by madwifi (the same model can have different chipsets in it depdening
> on "model version") check the output of lspci. If it has Atheros in it
> somewhere then madwifi is correct. Otherwise you need some other
> driver.
>   
Axel

Thanks for that info. That works fine now.

Chris Jones