Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

[ravisagar at gmail.com]

 Wifi is now working!

1. Installed wget -c
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
2. Then I did *modprobe ath_pci* and *modprobe wlan_scan_sta*

Thats it!

Thank you guys for all your help!!

-Ravi

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:16 PM, KH KH <kwizart at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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