Wireless DWL-G510 driver on fedora4

[Steven Stern]

Luciano Costa wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> Well, I tried to do the following instructions:
> 
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> Here is the simple way I got my card Athros chipped card to work in FC4:
> 
> 1) check the current kernel details in terminal by running "uname -a". 
> Write down what is shown.
> 
> 2) Go to ATrpm (http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/) in Firefox 1.07 (or 
> later)
> and download madwifi-0.9.6.0-18.rhfc4.at.i386.rpm by clicking on the 
> link (I'm not running a 64bit processor). When this is run in the 
> Firefox download manager
> you get the option to "open with" and in the drop down box "install 
> packages (default)". Hit OK. This will install this rpm. Do this before 
> you proceed to the next step.
> 
> 3) Now search the ATrpm Fedora driver list 
> (http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/) and make sure you get the correct 
> rpm to match your kernel details you wrote down in Step 1) above. In my 
> case "uname -a" told me that my kernal is 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4. I do not 
> have a 64bit processor running so I selected this rpm: 
> madwifi-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4-0.9.6.0-18.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm. Make sure 
> you click on the
> "madwifi-kmdl-" rpm that matches both your your processor and kernel.
> 
> 4) Click on the correct rpm as described in 3) above and Firefox will 
> offer to install it. Click OK.
> 
> 5) Reboot your computer.
> 6) Go to Desktop in your FC4 top panel. Select "System settings" then 
> "Network". Type in your root password when asked and you will be taken 
> to graphic menu that will list your network cards. In my case my laptop 
> has an ethernet card and the wireless card. Until I installed Madwifi as 
> described above the wireless card
> was not listed.
> 
> 7) The wireless card is now listed under "Devices", in my case under the 
> ethernet card. Check the box to the left next of the wireless card and 
> press the "Activate" button.
> 
> 8) When you go to leave the network menu you will be asked to save the 
> new settings. Press OK. You're almost there.
> 
> 9) Your card will still not be working. Restart your computer.
> 
> 10) Bingo! It works.
> 
> I hope this helps others. I'm no geek but *I* got it to work. (With a 
> lot of help from the replies in this thread above).
> ###############################################################################################
> 
> However, these instructions failed ...
> 
> I would like to know how can I to install and configure wireless 
> DWL-G510 d-link in my computer on fedora 4 ? only ...
> 
> Best regards..
> 
>  Luciano
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/2/06, *Steven Stern* <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com 
> <mailto:subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Luciano Costa wrote:
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > I tried to install and configure the driver for DWL-G510 d-link on
>      > fedora 4. Fisrtly, I installed following rpm packages:
>      >
>      > madwifi-kmdl-2.6.14*
>      > madwifi-0.9.6.0-18*
>      >
>      > reboot
>      >
>      > and when I restarted the machine, it search the wireless driver and
>      > shows the message:
>      >
>      > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>      > Error for wireless request "Set mode" (8B06)
>      > SET failed on device ath0; Invalid argument
>      > -----------------------------------------------------------------
>      >
>      >
>      > When I see the configuration in the system setup of
>     network  manager,
>      > it's  shown this:
>      >
>      > ---------------------------------------------
>      > ath0(Atheros Communication, Inc..Unknown device 001a)
>      > ---------------------------------------------
>      >
>      >
>      > What should I do ?!?!
>      > Have someone here that installed wireless driver for DWL-G510
>     (Atheros's
>      > driver) on fedora  ?!?!
> 
>     I use the "old" version of Madwifi and build from source from
>     http://www.madwifi.org.  I've not been able to get the "madwifi-ng"
>     version to work.
> 
>     Each time I install a new kernel, I have to boot into single user mode
>     and use make;make install to update the drivers with the stuff needed
>     for the current kernel, then reboot into normal mode.
> 
>     The error you report above can be fixed in
>     /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0  by adding "RATE=Auto" to the
>     file, replacing any other "RATE=" line.
> 
> 
>     --
> 
>        Steve
> 
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> 

Forget the instructions you cited.  Remove the RPMs with "rpm -e ....".

Download the source from http://www.madwifi.org and install the kernel 
source package via yum.

Unpack the tarball into /usr/local/src.  Go into the madwifi directory 
and type make;make install.  When done, type "modprobe ath_pci". 
Reboot.  That's pretty much it.  This is all explained in the INSTALL 
file you'll find in the tar file.

-- 

   Steve