Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:16:49PM +0530, ravisagar at gmail.com wrote:
> I have Compaq Presario C772TU Laptop. I has Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network
> Adapter. Yesterday I installed Fedora 8 but I was not able to enable WiFi.
> 
> 1. I tried configuring WiFi using KNetworkManager, but no luck.
> 2. I installed Windows driver (.inf and .sys) file in fedora using NDISwrapper.
> When I tried to scan wlan0 I got the error that "Network doesn't support
> Scanning: Network is Down". I then tried ifconfig wlan0 up but I got following
> error SIOCSIFFLAGS..........
> 
> How can I enable WiFi on Fedora 8. Is this problem solved in Fedora 9.
> 
> I really love Fedora and don't want to switch to any other OS.

If it's the 5007 (see below) the only one supporting it out of the box
at this point is the Mandriva "one" CD and possibly other Mandriva
versions.  Ubuntu doesn't, PCLinuxOS doesn't, ArchLinux doesn't.  



http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhwireless.html#5007

The chances are that it's AR5007EG card.  If so, then the link above
gives instructions that have worked for about 90 percent
of the folks with the problem. 

This isn't Fedora though, it's a Linux/Atheros issue. 


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