Custom F8 kernal and ath5k

[Greg Sieranski]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 1/2/08, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski at quoininc.com> wrote:
>   
>> John W. Linville wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:25:40AM -0500, Greg Sieranski wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Has anyone had any success compiling their own kernal and enabling the
>>>> ath5k driver per
>>>> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k#Getdriver with an
>>>> Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express
>>>> Adapter (rev 01)?  I have had no luck with the madwifi drivers and and
>>>> trying to find some other way to get my wireless to work.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Why would you need to do this?  ath5k is already in F8 kernels.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>       
>> thanks, i did not know it was there. So i removed all madwifi modules
>> and then reloaded the ath5k driver and get the following when running lsmod:
>>
>> ath5k                  98501  0
>> mac80211              132045  1 ath5k
>>
>>
>> however, when i do an iwconfig i get:
>> lo        no wireless extensions.
>>
>> irda0     no wireless extensions.
>>
>> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>>
>> sit0      no wireless extensions.
>>
>> vmnet1    no wireless extensions.
>>
>> vmnet8    no wireless extensions.
>>
>> virbr0    no wireless extensions.
>>
>>
>> So no wireless devices are showing up. Any thoughts on what I can try next?
>>
>> I have an  Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless
>> PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
>>     
>
> If madwifi isn't working then ath5k isn't going to work either.
> madwifi supports more hardware than ath5k.
>
>
>   
The madwifi module loads and I am able to view available networks using 
networkmanager I am just not able to connect to any whether they are 
open or use wep/wpa. I am trying to exhaust all possible options before 
I commit to buying and intel wireless card.

Thanks,
gs