On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 14:29 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote: > On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:19:31 -0500 > "Jeffrey D. Yuille" <jeffy5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> opined: > > I have a Linksys Wireless card, model wpc55ag. I am using a Dell > > Inspiron 4000 laptop and have FC5 installed with the Gnome desktop. > > This card worked perfectly under FC4, using the madwifi drivers but > > I cannot get it recognized in FC5. I would click on Desktop-System > > Settings-Network, I would come upon the Networking Configuration > > tool. When I click on New-Wireless Connection, I would only see > > "other wireless cards". The system does not even see my card, > > despite already having installed the kmod-madwifi drivers. How can > > I corrct this problem? Is this a problem for others (or is this a > > bug?) ? > > > Do you have the alias (eg alias ath0 ath_pci) in modprobe.conf? > Actually, with the packaging from livna, it is found in /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi rather than directly in /etc/modprobe.conf... alias wifi0 ath_pci alias ath0 ath_pci options ath_pci autocreate=sta Though I am experiencing the same problem. system-config-network is insisting that the wireless is an Ethernet card. So I gave up and just wrote a script that I run by hand when not wired.... iwconfig ath0 essid "yourssidhere" key "yourwepkeyhere" iwpriv ath0 authmode 2 iwpriv ath0 mode 2 ifconfig ath0 up dhclient -1 ath0 I believe this may be related to the madwifi-ng code not being properly recognized by system-config-network given the pair of layers here with both wifi0 and ath0 being established.... --Rob
