On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 20:52 -0400, Bill Johnson wrote: > OK... I'm tearing my hair out on this one. I recently upgraded from > Fedora Core 1 (actually, it was a clean install) to Fedora Core 3. I > use a Netgear HA501 (80211.A) wireless card, which I had working under > Core 1. It took me weeks at that time, as I recall, and was easily the > closest I've come to giving up on Linux. Now, I'm in the same boat. > I've spent hours searching for every error message on Google, tried to > use the #MADWIFI irc channel (got no response), and still cannot get it > to work. > > SO... is there anybody on this group who has this working with Fedora > Core 3, and would be willing to correspond with me to get it working? > If I plug my mepis CD in, the thing works perfectly. But for some > reason, it is stumping me with FC3. > > Thanks in advance for any assistance. > > Bill J. > Hey Bill, I'm running it, and been pretty happy. Though I am not using any of the newer WPA type things. I have a simple WEP key setup and sending this email to you right now on it. Heading to bed shortly, but should be online all day tomorrow (teaching a class in New York) - not sure what time zone you're in.... Just to get you started, I use the following script to get the driver installed: > #!/bin/bash > # > # update_madwifi.sh > # > # Presumes that we have upgraded and booted to a new kernel. > > #cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.config > cd /Download > rm -rf madwifi > mkdir madwifi > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi > cd madwifi > #export CC=/usr/bin/gcc32 > make > make install > The two commented lines were needed at various times as I have used this script since FC1, in one form or another. The other challenge was to get things happy with kudzu and system- config-network.... Bottom line I ended up with the following.... Ended up with the following line in /etc/modprobe.conf > alias ath0 ath_pci Then I have in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 > # Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC > DEVICE=ath0 > ONBOOT=yes > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > HWADDR=<your hardware address here> > NETMASK= > DHCP_HOSTNAME= > IPADDR= > DOMAIN= > GATEWAY= > TYPE=Wireless > ESSID=<your key here> > CHANNEL=1 > MODE=Managed > RATE=Auto > USERCTL=no > PEERDNS=yes > IPV6INIT=no > Then there is an /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-ath0 > KEY=<your key here> Hope that can get you started. Let me know how you make out in the morning..... --Rob
