Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

[Bob Arendt]

I've been able to use the ath5k driver, though it doesn't seem to work
as reliably the madwifi "ath_pci" driver.

If you're using madwifi, you need to add:
blacklist ath5k
to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and reboot.

I've been using the svn trunk pretty successfully against the new kernels:
svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk madwifi
cd madwifi
make install

If you install a new kernel, make sure you do a "make clean" before
another "make install", to rebuild and install against the new kernel.
By default it builds against the current kernel.  To build against a
different version:
k=2.6.24.4-64.fc8
env KERNELRELEASE=$k KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/$k/build make install

ravisagar at gmail.com wrote:
> I tried MadWiFi also this morning. I followed the steps mentioned here 
> http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
> 
> When I did *modprobe ath_pci *I got error that ath_pci is unknown interface.
> 
> :(
> 
> Ravi
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM, KH KH <kwizart at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kwizart at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     2008/4/21, ravisagar at gmail.com <mailto:ravisagar at gmail.com>
>     <ravisagar at gmail.com <mailto:ravisagar at gmail.com>>:
>      > 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.
> 
>     Fedora has the ath5k builtin kernel (you may need a newer kernel)
>     if your chipset isn't supported by ath5k yet, you can give a try on
>     the madwifi project.
>     Third part fedora repositories are packaging prebuild kmod for madwifi
>     so you won't have to compile it yourself for Fedora 8
> 
>     Now you shoudn't need to use ndiswrapper with any atheros chipsets
>     (unless newer models using ar5007 on 64bit and some older atheros
>     usb).
> 
>     Nicolas (kwizart)
> 
>      > I really love Fedora and don't want to switch to any other OS.
>      >
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