On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 11:34 -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > Hi, > I installed madwifi-ng on my newly installed FC5 box. I could connected to > my WEP protected network just fine using the 'modprobe', 'ifconfig', > 'ifup', 'iwconfig', and 'route' commands. The problem is that I don't want > to use those commands to connect. I simply want to use > system-config-network to make a profile that I can use with the 'ifup' > command. > > system-config-network doesn't see ath0 when I select "New wireless device." > It only sees wifi0 when I select "New ethernet device." > > 'iwconfig' sees ath0. 'ifconfig' sees lo, eth0, and wifi0. modprobe.conf > has an entry 'alias wifi0 ath_pci'. > > Something seems wrong. Why is there an "ethernet" device for my wireless > device? Why does ifconfig see ath0, but system-config-network doesn't? Leave the wifi0 - but add a line exactly like it that says ath0 instead of wifi0 Then you will be able to configure it with system-config-network and use the standard tools to bring it up and down etc.
