Re: Wireless DWL-G510 driver on fedora4

Luciano Costa wrote:

Hi Steven,

Well, I tried to do the following instructions:

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Here is the simple way I got my card Athros chipped card to work in FC4:

1) check the current kernel details in terminal by running "uname -a". Write down what is shown.

2) Go to ATrpm (http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/) in Firefox 1.07 (or later) and download madwifi-0.9.6.0-18.rhfc4.at.i386.rpm by clicking on the link (I'm not running a 64bit processor). When this is run in the Firefox download manager you get the option to "open with" and in the drop down box "install packages (default)". Hit OK. This will install this rpm. Do this before you proceed to the next step.

3) Now search the ATrpm Fedora driver list (http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/) and make sure you get the correct rpm to match your kernel details you wrote down in Step 1) above. In my case "uname -a" told me that my kernal is 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4. I do not have a 64bit processor running so I selected this rpm: madwifi-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4-0.9.6.0-18.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm. Make sure you click on the

"madwifi-kmdl-" rpm that matches both your your processor and kernel.

4) Click on the correct rpm as described in 3) above and Firefox will offer to install it. Click OK.

5) Reboot your computer.

6) Go to Desktop in your FC4 top panel. Select "System settings" then "Network". Type in your root password when asked and you will be taken to graphic menu that will list your network cards. In my case my laptop has an ethernet card and the wireless card. Until I installed Madwifi as described above the wireless card

was not listed.

7) The wireless card is now listed under "Devices", in my case under the ethernet card. Check the box to the left next of the wireless card and press the "Activate" button.

8) When you go to leave the network menu you will be asked to save the new settings. Press OK. You're almost there.

9) Your card will still not be working. Restart your computer.

10) Bingo! It works.

I hope this helps others. I'm no geek but *I* got it to work. (With a lot of help from the replies in this thread above).

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However, these instructions failed ...

I would like to know how can I to install and configure wireless DWL-G510 d-link in my computer on fedora 4 ? only ...

Best regards..

 Luciano

On 2/2/06, *Steven Stern* <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    Luciano Costa wrote:
     > Hi all,
     >
     > I tried to install and configure the driver for DWL-G510 d-link on
     > fedora 4. Fisrtly, I installed following rpm packages:
     >
     > madwifi-kmdl-2.6.14*
     > madwifi-0.9.6.0-18*
     >
     > reboot
     >
     > and when I restarted the machine, it search the wireless driver and
     > shows the message:
     >
     > ----------------------------------------------------------------
     > Error for wireless request "Set mode" (8B06)
     > SET failed on device ath0; Invalid argument
     > -----------------------------------------------------------------
     >
     >
     > When I see the configuration in the system setup of
    network  manager,
     > it's  shown this:
     >
     > ---------------------------------------------
     > ath0(Atheros Communication, Inc..Unknown device 001a)
     > ---------------------------------------------
     >
     >
     > What should I do ?!?!
     > Have someone here that installed wireless driver for DWL-G510
    (Atheros's
     > driver) on fedora  ?!?!

    I use the "old" version of Madwifi and build from source from
    http://www.madwifi.org.  I've not been able to get the "madwifi-ng"
    version to work.

    Each time I install a new kernel, I have to boot into single user mode
    and use make;make install to update the drivers with the stuff needed
    for the current kernel, then reboot into normal mode.

    The error you report above can be fixed in
    /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0  by adding "RATE=Auto" to the
    file, replacing any other "RATE=" line.


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### Luciano Tavares da Costa ###
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Forget the instructions you cited.  Remove the RPMs with "rpm -e ....".

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  Steve