WiFi for a laptop

[Karl Larsen]

Richard England wrote:
> 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/
>
    I have been there and I have yum installed 2 rpm files with madwifi 
in their names. I will use NetworkManager assuming the testing I am 
doing at the moment will work well. When the test is complete and 
successful I will work again on the laptop.

Karl