Howto configure Wireless Card in FC5
Antonio Montagnani
antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Sat Jun 3 20:47:27 UTC 2006
2006/6/3, Chris Jones <linux at stow-jones.co.uk>:
> I have FC5 on a vanilla Athlon 64 CPU. I also have a Netgear WPN311 NIC.
>
> My question is-
> How do I get this NIC to talk to my LAN which is hosted with a Netgear
> DG834PN ADSL/Router. I have tried to install the madwifi rpms from
> atrpms, but the wireless card does not seem to be seen.
>
> The output from iwconfig is:-
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1 no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
> ... from ifconfig is:
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:EA:8C:2E:52
> inet addr:192.168.0.22 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fe8c:2e52/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:552268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:885713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:340400719 (324.6 MiB) TX bytes:107766838 (102.7 MiB)
> Interrupt:19 Base address:0xc000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:980429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:980429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:6920054619 (6.4 GiB) TX bytes:6920054619 (6.4 GiB)
>
> ... output from uname -a is:
> Linux x.x.x 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 #1 SMP Thu May 4 21:16:04 EDT 2006 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
> All help will be very gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
> Chris Jones
>
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Have you installed the following packages?
madwifi
madwifi-hal-kmdl-your kernel version
madwifi-kmdl-your kernel version
My Dlink card is recognized as ath0..
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Antonio Montagnani
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