Unable to get Atheros based drivers working

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:49 -0500, Robert Locke wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:13 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Robert Locke wrote:
> > 
> > > (snip, snip)
> http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/installing-madwifi-using-yum-and-livna/
> 
> Thought it strange that this person had no problems with
> system-config-network under FC5 like I was having....
> 
> So I copied the lines from /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi
> into /etc/modprobe.conf, like he had.  I rebooted.  Ran
> system-config-network and there were now three hardware elements.  One
> for my Ethernet card that had been there all along, one for the Atheros
> card incorrectly delineated as Ethernet and aliased to wifi0 which had
> also been there all along (and had previously been
> in /etc/modprobe.conf), but finally a new hardware element called
> ath_pci and aliased to ath0.  I then created a new device, choosing
> Wireless and configuring ath0.  Worked perfectly.
> 
> So I guess the bug/problem is with system-config-network not working
> with the /etc/modprobe.d/ files.  I am also thinking that people may be
> having the same problem with NetworkManager though I haven't started
> playing with that yet....
> 
> HTH,
> 
> --Rob
> 
> Thanks Rob, 
      I was able to get my Atheros Card up and going.