FC7 Atheros wireless card

Thu Jun 14 13:31:37 UTC 2007

2007/6/14, kalinix <calin.kalinix.cosma at gmail.com>:
> Could you please check your /etc/modprobe.conf for
> alias wifi0 ath_pci
> and comment it out if exist. Next, in same /etc/modprobe.conf add a
> line:
> alias ath0 ath_pci
> After saving, you must unload and reload the modules for ath.
>
> This should do the trick and you will be able to see ath0 in your
> NetworkManager.
>
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:44 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > 2007/6/14, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel at todo-linux.com>:
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.
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> >
> > what do you mean??? In any case I made another trial to create a
> > ifgc-atho file but id didn't work... The real question is why I see an
> > ath0 in ifconfig but I do not see it in my Network configuration
> > window :-(
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>
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tnx Calin

It did the trick.....

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