You might try killing the wired interface. I had to do that on another distro before wireless would work right. It may or may not work that way in fedora but there is no harm in: ifconfig eth0 down --- Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > The madwifi module loads and I am able to view available networks using > networkmanager I am just not able to connect to any whether they are > open or use wep/wpa. I am trying to exhaust all possible options before > I commit to buying and intel wireless card. > > Thanks, > gs > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
