On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:56 -0400, Daniel Normolle wrote: > Johan Lozano wrote: > > hi all, > > > > i am trying to install a wireless nic on my acer aspire 5024 wlmi > > without succes. > > is someone succeeded in such an attempt and if so how did you do it? > > > > i tried with the original nic a broadcom 4318 with ndiswrapper and the > > linuxant way. nothing helps. > > today i bought a new nic a d-link dwl-g650 and tried also with > > ndiswrapper as well as with the linuxant manner, again without success. > > finally i followed the madwafi method and even that was not succesfull. > > > > is there anybody who can help me out here? > > I was able to get the DWL-G650 working using madwifi under FC3. > > Can you be more explicit about the setup, the software and the > results of the attempted madwifi install? > > dpn > > i followed the hints on this link: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=64363 everything goes well until *ifup ath0* [root@mbarwen ~]# modinfo ath_pci filename: /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/net/ath_pci.ko parmtype: countrycode:int parmtype: outdoor:int parmtype: xchanmode:int parm: countrycode:Override default country code parm: outdoor:Enable/disable outdoor use parm: xchanmode:Enable/disable extended channel mode parmtype: ifname:charp parm: ifname:Interface name prefix (default: ath) author: Errno Consulting, Sam Leffler description: Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards. license: Dual BSD/GPL vermagic: 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0 depends: ath_hal,wlan,ath_rate_sample alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000007sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000012sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000A727d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000010B7d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd00001014sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000015sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000016sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000017sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000018sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd00000019sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000168Cd0000001Asv*sd*bc*sc*i* srcversion: 10AFF40770E3A7E9826DCCC [root@mbarwen ~]# ifup ath0 ath_pci device ath0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. [root@mbarwen ~]# and here i am stocked. any suggestions? Johan Lozano MicroBit, Duffel E-mail : johan.lozano@xxxxxxxxxx GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
