John Summerfield wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
Endy wrote:
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
I can see the ath5k module is loaded. I could just set up an
ifcfg-ath0 module and then `ifup ifcfg-ath0` and Network Manager
should be able to do the rest of my work for me...does this make any
sense?
Not exactly. I've not used the ath5k module, I use the madwifi driver.
I would try:
# Load the driver
modprobe ath5k
% Check for kernel messages
dmesg | tail -20
# find device name
iwconfig
I don't know what the device will be, probably _not_ wifi0.
Assuming you're right, netmanager should see it, and you can
manipulate it with the iw commands (but don't do this if you're using
netmanager, except to test. You need to be root)
iwconfig ath0 essid any key s:passp rate auto
dhclient ath0
Mostly, those two commands (with correct data) associate with an AP
using WEP.
I think I'm all set. I got rid of the ath5k driver by renaming it,
rebooted the laptop with the network cable plugged in. Then I set up the
Livna repository and executed a 'yum install kmod-madwifi'. After that I
started Network Manager, edited the wireless settings for ath0, rebooted
the laptop without the network cable, and presto! I got a wireless
connection! Only problem is that updating kmod-madwifi while doing a
'yum update' runs into dependency problems.
Bob
