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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