FC6 & MADWIFI

[Denis Leroy]

John DeDourek wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>   
> Unfortunately, this may not currently work.  Fedora Core 6 (and Fedora 
> Core 5)
> have updated to the 2.6.20 kernel last week.  Livna claims that the madwifi
> snapshot madwifi that they are using will not build for 2.6.20, 
> therefore, there
> is no kernel module for this update.  They claim to be waiting for 
> "upstream"
> to fix the problem.

It's all good now. Madwifi just released 0.9.3. Matthias just released 
the dkms-based RPMs for it on freshrpms :

http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1116

Works great with 2.6.20