atheros madwifi driver not working

[Jim]

Martín Marqués wrote:
> I just got a Compaq Presario F700 which has an Atheros chip based wifi
> PCI express card. I check on the web and found that I had to install
> madwifi-hal.
>
> I can't find that package in livna, nor can I find it in atrpms, so I
> installed kmod-madwifi and madwifi from livna (which installed for
> dependencies iwl4965-firmware), but even though the module gets loaded
> automatically, the card doesn't work.
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Info:
>
> # lsmod | grep ath
> ath_pci               235072  0
> wlan                  219376  1 ath_pci
> ath_hal               282240  1 ath_pci
>
> # lspci -vv
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
> 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 137b
>         Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
>         Region 0: Memory at f6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [disabled] [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>         Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>                 Address: 00000000  Data: 0000
>         Capabilities: [60] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
>                 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s
> <512ns, L1 <64us
>                         ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset-
>                 DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal-
> Unsupported-
>                         RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
>                         MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
>                 DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq-
> AuxPwr- TransPend-
>                 LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1,
> Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <64us
>                         ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
>                 LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 128 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
>                         ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
>                 LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train-
> SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
>         Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
>                 Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00000000
>                 PBA: BAR=0 offset=00000000
>         Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
>         Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
>         Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci
>
>   
FC10 has the kernel-2.6.27 that has drivers for this Wifi card, you 
won't find any help in the 2.6.26.
the livna driver doesn't work right.
I have the eeePC 702 that uses FC 10 2.6.27 and the Atheros Ar5007EG 
WIFI works perfect.