On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:19:44PM -0800, bruce wrote:
hi axel...
i checked out the link you provided and i'm still confused...
here are the steps i think i need (but i still don't know which card to
use!!)
-do a "uname -r" and get the kernel for my system
-go to the atrpms site and get the required rpm
-install the rpm
There are two rpms, the one with kmdl+uname -r in the name, and the
one w/o. The latter contains some userland appications.
(is there only one rpm for RHEL 4?)
Please check the site at http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/, you
probably need:
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-0.9.6.0-18.el4.at.i386.rpm
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-kmdl-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL-0.9.6.0-18.el4.at.i686.rpm
adjust accordingsly, if you have an athlon (or even athlon 64) or smp.
after i do the install of the madwifi-module rom, do i need to do anything
else? the web page mentioned sharutils....
No, nothing else needs to be installed, but now you must configure
modprobe.conf and create ifcfg-ath0. The madwifi wiki is very
elaborate on this.
do i need to do the "modprobe" ? when would i do it?
Not really, only for testing. Later the initscripts do the modprobe
for you via the alias lines in modprobe.conf.
when do i place my card in the slot?
Right at the beginning, it won't hurt. You'll need it the very latest
when you or the system tries to modprobe the module.
how do i know if i even have the right/correct card for this rpm?
Use lspci, e.g.
# lspci | grep Atheros
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
lord give me windows!!!! just kidding.. but there really should be a better
way for this...
a site/page that says, ... take this card, for this linux version.. and do
these steps...!!!!
http://madwifi.org, I already posted a specific link to the RHEL
section. There is enough information specific for RHEL as well as
generic to the driver (just start on the front page) to allow you to
do anything with it.
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/RedHat
thanks
-bruce
From: Axel Thimm [mailto:Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: Re: netgear wg511t - wireless network card
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:18:14PM -0800, bruce wrote:
ok....
but can someone point me to something that takes me through how to get a
wireless card up/runing on linux, step-by-step....
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/RedHat
and can someone explain to me why RHEL appears to have a list of
cards/adapters, if it doesn't really natively support any cards that i can
find for the box?????
Because it is closed source and thus not supportable by the
distribution vendor unless the vendor has a partnership or some other
special arrangement with the authors (like for java and acroread on
the extra CD).
-bruce
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Subject: Re: netgear wg511t - wireless network card
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:02:28PM -0500, Jay Lee wrote:
On Fri, February 17, 2006 3:59 pm, bruce wrote:
i'm looking to create a dell/rhel laptop, using netgear's wg511t
network
card.
i'm considering this card as it appears to be natively supported
by rhel 4. is this correct?
The one I have (it's a bit old) has an atheros chipset in it. But
netgear is known to upgrade hardware w/o changing the market name.
can someone tell me the actual steps (or point me to a site with the
actual steps) to get the card up/running on the dell/rhel system.
when i plug the card into the slot, nothing seems to happen...
i'd prefer not to have to install drivers/rebuild kernel if i don't
have
to. actual steps to accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated...
No, it is not natively supported. The only G-wireless card I know of
that
RHEL4 natively supports is the Centrino. You can however use the
madwifi
drivers with these
http://madwifi.org/
It works quite well, I have a few CentOS4 kiosks running 24/7 with
Netgear
311T's (same card but PCI interface). They work quite well, I just have
to make sure I recompile the madwifi after updating the kernel or they
won't get any connectivity.
There is madwifi support for RHEL4 (i386 and x86_64) at ATrpms.net,
you need the madwifi and the madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r` packages:
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
