FC7 Atheros wireless card

[antonio montagnani]

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?
>
>
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> 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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Antonio Montagnani
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