Re: Accepted Way To Install/Load Atheros Wireless Drivers

[Endy <endy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > I have an Atheros AR5006EG card on a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6147 
> > laptop computer. That's an i386 architecture but is Pentium Dual Core.
> >
> > ifconfig doesn't show either a wlan0 or an ath0 present. I guess I 
> > need to add the ATRPMS repo and then install the madwifi driver to 
> > get support?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> That, or download from madwifi.org. There's a src.rpm someplace, you 
> need to rebuild for each new kernel. Doesn't take long.
Freshrpms has a package for the madwifi driver. 
http://moonshine.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=453 .

Install the freshrpms-release package that is listed on the left side of 
the page, and then install it from yum.
Endy