WiFi for a laptop

[Richard England]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Richard England wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>>> On 06Jul2007 16:40, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> Hi Sam, if Windows is right the WAN miniport is a L2TP whatever 
>>>>> that is. The CPU is Intel and can step down in speed from about 
>>>>> 2791 MHz. Since you have two laptops working can you point me to 
>>>>> any help you used? I have the latest kernel 3232 that has a lot of 
>>>>> stuff in modules and I can get them to work if I knew how.
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> It's worth checking the output of the "lspci" command under linux.
>>>> For example, mine includes these lines:
>>>>
>>>>   02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit 
>>>> Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
>>>>   02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG 
>>>> Network Connection (rev 05)
>>>>
>>>> The bottom one is my WiFi interface.
>>>>
>>>> My /etc/modprobe.conf file says (amongst other things):
>>>>
>>>>   alias eth0 e1000
>>>>   alias eth1 ipw2200
>>>>
>>>> which causes the command "modprobe eth1" to load the ipw2200 module.
>>>>
>>>> I'd imagine the "system-config-network" command should figure this 
>>>> out on its
>>>> own for the common cases. How's it do for you?
>>>>   
>>>    Well mine is no where as clear as yours. I have two so called 
>>> ethernet cards in my laptop. One is a Atheros Communications Inc. 
>>> and the other is a Realtek Semiconductor Co. so I'm not sure which 
>>> is what. Guess I will run both through Google.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>> Sheesh.
>>
>> Why don't you post the output from lspci so everyone can see it.
>> You probably have a NIC (Network Interface Card) as well as a WiFI card.
>> I would suspect the Atheros is the WiFi but with no evidence it is 
>> hard to know.
>>
>    You are right. It is the Atheros because it has MAC811 in it's name 
> and the other one is the eth0 ethernet divice. So I know the name of 
> my device, how do I use that to select a proper driver from the many?
>
>    As for posting the whole list, It is on a laptop with no Internet. 
> I could make a file of it and put it on a Flash drive, bring it to 
> this computer and add it to a message. Too much work.
>
>
> Karl
>
You need to configure yum to access the livna repository and install  
kmod-madwifi.i686  from there. That should give you the kernel module 
needed to support the Atheros chip set.  Since you seem to think 
NetworkManager won't work, you might also consider installing  
madwifi.i386 which will give you some diagnostic tools  you can use to 
get information about your madwifi Atheros wireless connections.

I'm using a PCMCIA card so my configuration will be different in details 
but the chipset should be similar and it works fine...even with 
NetworkManager.

More information available at http://www.madwifi.org/