Problems With Atheros Based Wireless Cards

[Gerry Tool]

Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:51 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:55:29 -0500
>> "Jeffrey D. Yuille" <jeffy5 at optonline.net <mailto: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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> No, the Madwifi drivers are "Madwifi-old" or just "Madwifi",  I 
> believe.  Also, when I try to configure the card in Gnome, I come to a 
> place that says, "other wireless cards".  In FC5, unlike in FC4, it 
> gives no name of the chipset to indicate that it even recognizes that 
> the card is present.  Also, when FC4 was installed, all I had to do 
> was install the kernel modules and drivers and my system would 
> recognize the card. 
I'm really sorry to read this thread.  I have given up on ndiswrapper 
with my Linksys WPC54G Cardbus adapter since it freezes the system if I 
have encryption enabled - works without encryption, but that isn't 
adequate.  So, I bought a madwifi supported Netgear 511T card on e-bay 
(don't have it yet) expecting it to work correctly from previous posts 
about wireless networking.

It seems to me that wireless networking has regressed tremendously 
between FC4 and FC5.  There have been many posts on this list about a 
variety of cards that no longer work and people having many problems 
getting those that do work to do so.

I wonder what kind of bugzilla report to make to get someone's attention 
about this host of problems.

Gerry