WiFi on Fedora laptops

[Karl Larsen]

Erich Zigler wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:49:53PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>    This is hard because we lack some essential data, and no place to 
>> find it. The first step is to name your wifi hardware on your computer.
>>     
>
> I don't follow. I find once you know what chipset your wireless card
> is wireless on Fedora is quite painless. For instance if I have a
> Linksys WMP54GS I type in to Google...
>
> linux linkys wmp54gs and it pops up in the first couple pages
> ndiswrapper and that it is a bcm43xx chipset. From the ndiswrapper
> pages I can figure out how to setup and configure the wireless driver.
> If I choose to dig deeper I can search for linux bcm43xx and get a lot
> of information on this issue. In addition I can do that with any
> wireless card. My current card is of the Atheros chipset and if I type
> in atheros linux I get madwifi. Do a search for madwifi rpm and I get
> livna. It's really not that difficult, just takes some research skills
> and the ability to type.
>
>   
>>    The second step is to determine which module(s) you need and what to 
>> call the main one. I was fooling around with ipw2200 when what I needed 
>> was ANOTHER kernel and the magic name ath_pci Is there anywhere a person 
>> can get this information? I don't even know what to call it :-!
>>     
>
> Please see above. If using one of the madwifi kernel module packages
> from livna or freshrpms the user should not need to know ath_pci even
> exists. I wouldn't call it a magic word by any stretch of the
> imagination as the rpm's insert it in to modprobe.conf for you.
>
> I can get my atheros card setup in 3 easy steps.
>
> 1. Install livna RPM to enable that repository.
> 2. Run yum install kmod-madwifi
> 3. Run system-network-config
>
> I am sorry you are having so much difficulty.
>
> - Erich
>
>   
Sorry Erich you don't even have any knowledge of the problem.


Karl