On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:21 +0900, Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > Hi All. > > I am running Fedora Core 6 from an Atholon 1000 cpu, with normal wired > DSL Access (Realtek8139). I have an Asus M2N-TVM motherboard with a > Atholon 3500 single core awaiting installation of Fedora Core 6. > However, this box has a D-LINK DWL-G520 WLan Card, and therin lies the > problem. > > On a previous install, Fedora cannot pick up the wLan Card. I know from > my eComStation install that the DWL-G520 uses the Atheros Chipset with > the Identifier of 168c:0013. Googling "Atheros" will bring me to a site, > that will give all the specs of my card. > > My understanding is that Madwifi is like a sort of generic wrapper, > where once it is installed (including, as I understand - linux kernel > updates), it will allow the parent Fedora system to pick up the card (as > one of many Atheros Cards)....I supply the ssid etc....and bingo, we > have wireless! :-) > > Problem with me is: I am very very raw in Linux. :-[ I think I've > seen somewhere where it has happened, but cannot follow the path to > acheive it. Is there anyone who has succeeded in Getting Wireless to go > using this card, FC6 and Madwifi? I can go "walklan" between these two > machines, as required. If there is anything I've missed, please let me know. > > I look forward to your help, and thank you in advance. First - verify that your card is atheros. /sbin/lspci |grep -i atheros You should see atheros mentioned in the output if your card is atheros. If it is - set up to use rpm.livna.org: http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repoview/livna-release-0-6-1.html Install that package. Once installed so that you can use the rpm.livna.org repository - yum install kmod-madwifi That should do it for you.
