Netbook wifi, wlan0 and inet6 address (F10)

[Jim]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2009 23:58:33 Steven I Usdansky wrote:
>   
>> Wireless is working fine on my Aspire One in F10 (using GNOME and
>> connecting via NetworkManager). Kernel is 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 if that
>> makes any difference. 
>>     
>
> I have the same kernel.
>
>   
>> ~$ sudo lsmod | grep ath
>> dm_multipath           17164  0
>> ath5k                 112520  0
>> mac80211              173668  1 ath5k
>> cfg80211               23816  2 ath5k,mac80211
>>
>>     
> My output is very different - which may be the result of my various efforts to 
> get a driver running - whether ath5k or madwifi:
>
> lsmod | grep ath
> dm_multipath           17164  0
> ath_rate_sample        14848  1
> ath_pci               162360  0
> wlan                  189748  4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
> ath_hal               302176  3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
>
>   
>> and, FWIW, my startup configuration:
>> /etc/rc3.d$ ls
>> K01dnsmasq       K75ntpdate        S08ip6tables       S50bluetooth
>> K01livesys-late  K76openvpn        S08iptables        S58ntpd
>> K01smartd        K85mdmonitor      S12rsyslog         S80sendmail
>> K05anacron       K87multipathd     S13irqbalance      S85gpm
>> K05saslauthd     K87restorecond    S22messagebus      S90crond
>> K10psacct        K89netplugd       S23wpa_supplicant  S90kerneloops
>> K15httpd         K89rdisc          S25netfs           S90smolt
>> K25sshd          K90network        S26haldaemon       S95atd
>> K50netconsole    K95firstboot      S26lm_sensors      S96avahi-daemon
>> K73winbind       K99livesys        S26udev-post       S98cups
>> K74nscd          S00microcode_ctl  S27NetworkManager  S99local
>> K75fuse          S06cpuspeed       S28portreserve
>>     
>
> ls /etc/rc3.d
> K01smartd          K73winbind      K90network        S14nfslock         
> S55sshd
> K05saslauthd       K73ypbind       K90shorewall      S15mdmonitor       
> S58ntpd
> K10psacct          K74lm_sensors   K91capi           S18rpcidmapd       
> S80sendmail
> K10zvbid           K74nscd         K91wifiroamd      S19rpcgssd         S85gpm
> K20hddtemp         K75fuse         K95firstboot      S22messagebus      
> S90crond
> K20nfs             K75ntpdate      S00microcode_ctl  S25netfs           
> S90kerneloops
> K24irda            K76openvpn      S06cpuspeed       S26acpid           
> S90smolt
> K36mysqld          K84btseed       S08ip6tables      S26haldaemon       S95atd
> K45arpwatch        K84bttrack      S08iptables       S26pcscd           
> S96avahi-daemon
> K50netconsole      K85racoon       S09isdn           S26udev-post       
> S97yum-updatesd
> K50snmpd           K87multipathd   S11auditd         S27NetworkManager  
> S98cups
> K50snmptrapd       K87restorecond  S12rsyslog        S28portreserve     
> S99anacron
> K50wpa_supplicant  K89netplugd     S13irqbalance     S28setroubleshoot  
> S99dnsmasq
> K69rpcsvcgssd      K89rdisc        S13rpcbind        S50bluetooth       
> S99local
>
> I don't see wpa_supplicant in there.
>
> [root at AAO ~]# service network status
> Configured devices:
> lo eth0 wlan0
> Currently active devices:
> lo eth0 wifi0 wlan0
> [root at AAO ~]# service NetworkManager status
> NetworkManager (pid  2240) is running...
>
> chkconfig --list network
> network         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> [root at AAO ~]# chkconfig --list NetworkManager
> NetworkManager  0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
>
> Is 'network' running?  I would have thought that 'Currently active devices:' 
> means that it is.  If it is, why?  chkconfig says it isn't being activated.
>
> Anne
>
>   
If you are running the kernel-2.6.27 the correct driver will be ath5K_pci .
If your running kernel-2.6.26 you'll have to use the madwifi driver, but 
sure to blacklist the driver originally supplied by Fedora.

When kernel-2.6.27 came out it had the correct drivers fot the Atheros 
wireless card 2.6.26 did not.