Problems With Atheros Based Wireless Cards

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Wed Mar 29 14:51:14 UTC 2006


On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:55:29 -0500
"Jeffrey D. Yuille" <jeffy5 at optonline.net> opined:
> Hello, 
> 
>      I had installed Fedora Core 5 on a Dell Inspiron 4000 computer
> and I was using the SMC 2536w-ag wireless card.  It used the
> madwifi drivers as well as the kernel module.  Although it worked
> fine under Fedora Core 4, I cannot get it working in Fedora Core
> 5.  Has anyone else experienced problems with these drivers in
> FC5?  And if so, how can I get this card working?  I also have an
> IBM T-30 with FC5 and am experiencing the same problems.  Thanks in
> advance for any help I can receive. 
> 
Are you having the problem where the Atheros is identified as
ethernet rather than wireless? When you mention madwifi, is that
madwifi-ng?

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