Unable to get Atheros based drivers working

[Robert Locke]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 14:29 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:19:31 -0500
> "Jeffrey D. Yuille" <jeffy5 at optonline.net> opined:
> > I have a Linksys Wireless card, model wpc55ag.  I am using a Dell
> > Inspiron 4000 laptop and have FC5 installed with the Gnome desktop.
> > This card worked perfectly under FC4, using the madwifi drivers but
> > I cannot get it recognized in FC5.  I would click on Desktop-System
> > Settings-Network, I would come upon the Networking Configuration
> > tool. When I click on New-Wireless Connection, I would only see
> > "other wireless cards".  The system does not even see my card,
> > despite already having installed the kmod-madwifi drivers.  How can
> > I corrct this problem?  Is this a problem for others (or is this a
> > bug?) ? 
> > 
> Do you have the alias (eg alias ath0 ath_pci) in modprobe.conf?
> 

Actually, with the packaging from livna, it is found
in /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi rather than directly in /etc/modprobe.conf...

alias wifi0 ath_pci
alias ath0 ath_pci
options ath_pci autocreate=sta

Though I am experiencing the same problem.  system-config-network is
insisting that the wireless is an Ethernet card.  So I gave up and just
wrote a script that I run by hand when not wired....

iwconfig ath0 essid "yourssidhere" key "yourwepkeyhere"
iwpriv ath0 authmode 2
iwpriv ath0 mode 2
ifconfig ath0 up
dhclient -1 ath0

I believe this may be related to the madwifi-ng code not being properly
recognized by system-config-network given the pair of layers here with
both wifi0 and ath0 being established....

--Rob