FC7 Atheros wireless card
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
manuel at todo-linux.com
Thu Jun 14 11:59:13 UTC 2007
On Thursday 14 June 2007 13:48:28 antonio montagnani wrote:
> I am running a D-Link G-650 that was o.k on FC6.
> I made afresh installation, I installed madwifi from freshrpms, then I
> rebooted. Now if I open the Network administration page I do not see the
> wifi-card (no ath0, no wifi0), but
> the output of lspi is:
>
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
> 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
>
> the output of lsmod is:
> Module Size Used by
> wlan_tkip 15872 0
> wlan_ccmp 11776 0
> wlan_scan_sta 16512 1
> ath_pci 92832 0
> ath_rate_sample 15744 1
> wlan 186052 6
> wlan_tkip,wlan_ccmp,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
> ath_hal 195408 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
>
> so all necessary modules are loaded...
>
> If I issue an ipconfig I get:
>
> ifconfig
> ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:E9:2F:EE:A7
> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:76 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:2145 (2.0 KiB) TX bytes:15878 (15.5 KiB)
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0D:04:A3:10
> inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::203:dff:fe04:a310/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1549 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:1155014 (1.1 MiB) TX bytes:430040 (419.9 KiB)
> Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:1036 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1036 (1.0 KiB)
>
> wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> 00-15-E9-2F-EE-A7-78-19-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:20649 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:11548
> TX packets:687 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
> RX bytes:2750101 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:52867 (51.6 KiB)
> Interrupt:16
>
>
> How can I have an wifi0 or ath0 that I do not see in the Network
> configuration window????
>
> Tnx for help
>
What happen if you try to configure your wireless network using iwconfig, I
mean, from the CLI?
Does it work?
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Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.
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