On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:31 -0500, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > As I continue to read this LUG, I am finding out that you can create > configuration files to work with Atheros-based wireless cards in FC5. I > cannot find my wireless card (a Linksys wpc 55ag) in Nework Manager. > How do you create these configuration files to get these wireless cards > to work and where are they placed? I currently am using FC5. One other > point - and perhaps this is just my opinion: it is totally unacceptable > for an operating system to not even be able to find a wireless card > (which worked perfectly in FC4, I might add) to not be detected, never > mind getting it to work. I understand that FC5 has just been released, > but if you have a major investment in wireless cards, they should be > able to work once you install the proper drivers. In my opinion, this > is a major show stopper which should have been fixed by now, especially > since a new kernel has already been released. Well, enough of my > ranting. Nevertheless, if this problem is not fixed soon, many people > are not going to use FC5 on laptops. > If you are going to rant, be careful where you are pointing the finger. While you are using a new release of Fedora, you are, perhaps unwittingly and coincidentally, using a new release of the "unsupported" madwifi driver, known as madwifi-ng. Under FC4, we were using the old madwifi code. Again, this code is being packaged by a kind soul over on livna.org and also by someone at atrpms. The reality of wireless is that other chipsets that are supported/included in FC are, apparently, working.... I am just not sure who should get the bugzilla on this. Should it be reported to Fedora Core - against system-config-network and NetworkManager; or should it be reported to livna and atrpms to adjust packaging; or should it be reported to madwifi.org? As I just pointed out in your earlier thread, I am "getting around" this using the documented methods of scripting per directions found at madwifi.org and, on your own machine, under /usr/share/doc/madwifi-<version>/.... --Rob
