atheros AR5006EG wireless network card

[Peter Lesterhuis]

>
> 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
>   
> 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!
Hi Bruce,
I am not yet at the point of giving up, but not far away from it. Thanks 
for your suggestion.  I am certainly going to try that when no 
work-arounds show up.
Peter