Richard England <rlengland <at> verizon.net> writes: > I have a a Toshiba laptop running FC 6 with uname showing kernel > 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 running a DWL G650 AirPlus PCMCIA card > > rpm -qa reports: > madwifi-0.9.3-1.lvn6 > kmod-madwifi-0.9.3-1.2.6.20_1.2933.fc6 > > When a new kernel comes out, there is an understandable lag before the > new kernel modules appear on Livna. Is it possible that you had the > wrong module installed? > > /etc/modprobe.conf shows "alias ath0 ath_pci" > > I'm using NetworkManager to handle the network setup and everything is > working fine. Had to enable NetworkManager and > NetworkManagerDispatcher using "System>Administration>Services", initially. Thanks Richard - I had the correct kernel and there was no i586 problem. Also I had installed the latest livna version - I did have the two extra lines in modprobe.conf and I also tried with NetworkManager but it made no difference. I will try again with the livna rpms but use just the one line in modprobe.conf. Also rather than just load the modules I will reboot the machine after doing changes and then plug the card in - sometimes for some reason I noted that the card initialises differently after re-booting compared to using say ifdown and then ifup. At one point I had ifconfig and iwconfig showing the correct ssid and key but it still did not associate! Anyway I will try again and report more in a day or so. The main reason for my original post was to see if someone had a step by step howto - so I could compare with my attempts - to see where I may have gone wrong. I am not entirely new to wifi on laptops and have ipw2200 on one machine, and ipw3945 on another which I compile myself and which do work. It is just on this final machine with no internal wireless that I need a plug-in wireless card - and I did not know if it was my ineptness which stopped me from getting it going or if there was a bug in either the kernel or drivers which was the problem... but I will persist and keep going till it works ! Mike
