hi peter... regarding your pain with atheros internal chipset/wifi... i feel your pain, and after serious hours, gave up.. i was looking to simply install using madwifi, and never got it to work. i had a toshiba satellite, with 4G mem, and tried to get x86_64 installed, with madwifi to support an internal atheros chipset.. i finally decided to punt, and got a linksys usb wifi device.. actually, i got a handful of different wifi usb dongles and tried different ones until i got one that worked. the good news... the usb/linksys dongle that i found does indeed work with fc8, running 2.6.24.3! in fact, it works quite nicely, out of the box. once you have the device plugged in, hit lsusb: and you should see the device. go into the system->network dialog. select new, wireless, and you should see the information for the linksys device. good luck! -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Lesterhuis Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:10 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: atheros AR5006EG wireless network card Hi, I purchased a Compaq Pressario A900ED notebook and installed fedora 8. Internet connection with the network cable plugged in works fine. There is however no chance to make the wireless network card work (Atheros Communications Inc. AR5006EG). This card isn't supported by Madwifi driver ath5k. A patch should make this driver work, but when I install this patch, packeged by T. Chung (http://tchung.fedorapeople.org/madwifi/ar2425/) I can't boot anymore: it keeps hanging during the boot. Does someone have a better experience with this wireless card? Anyone got this card going with ndiswrapper? Peter -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
