Re: FC6 & MADWIFI

Michael A Peters wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:21 +0900, Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
Hi All.

I am running Fedora Core 6 from an Atholon 1000 cpu, with normal wired DSL Access (Realtek8139). I have an Asus M2N-TVM motherboard with a Atholon 3500 single core awaiting installation of Fedora Core 6. However, this box has a D-LINK DWL-G520 WLan Card, and therin lies the problem.

On a previous install, Fedora cannot pick up the wLan Card. I know from my eComStation install that the DWL-G520 uses the Atheros Chipset with the Identifier of 168c:0013. Googling "Atheros" will bring me to a site, that will give all the specs of my card.

My understanding is that Madwifi is like a sort of generic wrapper, where once it is installed (including, as I understand - linux kernel updates), it will allow the parent Fedora system to pick up the card (as one of many Atheros Cards)....I supply the ssid etc....and bingo, we have wireless! :-)

Problem with me is: I am very very raw in Linux. :-[ I think I've seen somewhere where it has happened, but cannot follow the path to acheive it. Is there anyone who has succeeded in Getting Wireless to go using this card, FC6 and Madwifi? I can go "walklan" between these two machines, as required. If there is anything I've missed, please let me know.

I look forward to your help, and thank you in advance.

First - verify that your card is atheros.

/sbin/lspci |grep -i atheros

You should see atheros mentioned in the output if your card is atheros.

If it is - set up to use rpm.livna.org:

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repoview/livna-release-0-6-1.html

Install that package.

Once installed so that you can use the rpm.livna.org repository -

yum install kmod-madwifi

That should do it for you.

Hi Michael.

Thanks for your quick response. Hopefully, I'll get onto it tonight...I have the rpm file and will transfer that to the new install (after Atheros verification), and see how I go.

Thanks again.

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