Trying to get wireless card to work in FC6

[Richard England]

Mike C wrote:
> I am using FC6 with KDE as a desktop and fully up to date on kernel
> 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.
>
> I have a D-Link G650 card with an atheros chipset. 
>
> I have been unable to get this card working despite various attempts with
> different versions of madwifi.  I initially tried kmod-madwifi from Livna. Then
> I followed the how-to from
> http://fedoraforum.org/forum/printthread.php?t=126266&page=1&pp=15
>
> I tried both the latest madwifi version 0.9.3 as well as the new generation
> snapshot from 6th April madwifi-ng-r2256-20070406.tar.gz
>
> Nothing seems to work.
>
> In addition I have a Cisco Aironet 350 pcmcia card - this used to work directly
> by plugging it in for fc5 and previously - but does not play with the new
> kernels in fc6.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers to getting either card going with an up to date
> fc6 system with kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6
>
> Thanks
>
>   
I have a a Toshiba laptop running FC 6  with uname showing  kernel 
2.6.20-1.2933.fc6  running a  DWL G650 AirPlus PCMCIA card

rpm -qa  reports:
    madwifi-0.9.3-1.lvn6
    kmod-madwifi-0.9.3-1.2.6.20_1.2933.fc6

When a new kernel comes out, there is an understandable lag before the 
new kernel modules appear on Livna.  Is it possible that you had the 
wrong module installed?

/etc/modprobe.conf shows  "alias ath0 ath_pci"

I'm using NetworkManager  to handle the network setup and everything is 
working fine.  Had to enable NetworkManager and 
NetworkManagerDispatcher  using "System>Administration>Services", initially.

I've been successfully using the Livna madwifi modules since the second 
kernel release for FC6.  While this doesn't help you debug your 
situation, at least it might imply that it CAN work.

~~R