Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

[ravisagar at gmail.com]

Bob,

I blacklisted ath5k and reinstalled madwifi but no luck. Is this problem
rectified in Fedora 9?

-Ravi

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Bob Arendt <rda at rincon.com> wrote:

> 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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Ravi Sagar
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