Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

[ravisagar at gmail.com]

I tried MadWiFi also this morning. I followed the steps mentioned here
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

When I did *modprobe ath_pci *I got error that ath_pci is unknown interface.

:(

Ravi



On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM, KH KH <kwizart at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/4/21, ravisagar at gmail.com <ravisagar at gmail.com>:
> > I have Compaq Presario C772TU Laptop. I has Atheros AR5006X Wireless
> Network
> > Adapter. Yesterday I installed Fedora 8 but I was not able to enable
> WiFi.
> >
> > 1. I tried configuring WiFi using KNetworkManager, but no luck.
> >  2. I installed Windows driver (.inf and .sys) file in fedora using
> > NDISwrapper. When I tried to scan wlan0 I got the error that "Network
> > doesn't support Scanning: Network is Down". I then tried ifconfig wlan0
> up
> > but I got following error SIOCSIFFLAGS..........
> >
> > How can I enable WiFi on Fedora 8. Is this problem solved in Fedora 9.
>
> Fedora has the ath5k builtin kernel (you may need a newer kernel)
> if your chipset isn't supported by ath5k yet, you can give a try on
> the madwifi project.
> Third part fedora repositories are packaging prebuild kmod for madwifi
> so you won't have to compile it yourself for Fedora 8
>
> Now you shoudn't need to use ndiswrapper with any atheros chipsets
> (unless newer models using ar5007 on 64bit and some older atheros
> usb).
>
> Nicolas (kwizart)
>
> > I really love Fedora and don't want to switch to any other OS.
> >
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