Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

[KH KH]

2008/4/23  <ravisagar at gmail.com>:
> Bob,
>
> I blacklisted ath5k and reinstalled madwifi but no luck. Is this problem
> rectified in Fedora 9?
Well, you missunderstood. You aren't supposed to blacklist ath5k as i
already done that for your with the livna madwifi package.
please give the output of dmesg |grep ath.

Give a try also on NetworkManager service to be enabled.

Does your system has been completely updated ?

Fedora 9, will never have the madwifi driver has it use a proprietary
daemon. Instead it has ath5k which is a younger driver but completely
free software. madwifi.org is working primarily on improving ath5k.

So the solution for now, is to use the livna-testing version of
kmod-madwifi. (that is likely the only one to support your newer
chipset)
What's append then ?

Nicolas
> -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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