On 1/2/08, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:25:40AM -0500, Greg Sieranski wrote: > > > >> Has anyone had any success compiling their own kernal and enabling the > >> ath5k driver per > >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k#Getdriver with an > >> Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express > >> Adapter (rev 01)? I have had no luck with the madwifi drivers and and > >> trying to find some other way to get my wireless to work. > >> > > > > Why would you need to do this? ath5k is already in F8 kernels. > > > > John > > > thanks, i did not know it was there. So i removed all madwifi modules > and then reloaded the ath5k driver and get the following when running lsmod: > > ath5k 98501 0 > mac80211 132045 1 ath5k > > > however, when i do an iwconfig i get: > lo no wireless extensions. > > irda0 no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > vmnet1 no wireless extensions. > > vmnet8 no wireless extensions. > > virbr0 no wireless extensions. > > > So no wireless devices are showing up. Any thoughts on what I can try next? > > I have an Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless > PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) If madwifi isn't working then ath5k isn't going to work either. madwifi supports more hardware than ath5k. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org
