Custom F8 kernal and ath5k

[Greg Sieranski]

David G. Mackay wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:32 -0500, Greg Sieranski wrote:
>   
>> Marcel Janssen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> If madwifi isn't working then ath5k isn't going to work either.
>>>> madwifi supports more hardware than ath5k.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I've got a similar problem as the original post. I wonder how I make sure the 
>>> madwifi driver is used instead of the ath5k driver.
>>>
>>> If the madwifi driver supports more hardware wouldn't it make sense to not use 
>>> the ath5k driver at all ?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Marcel
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> yea, i checked and currently ath5k does not support my card. Not really 
>> sure what to do at this point other than buy an Intel wireless card.
>>     
>
> I have an AR5416 pcmcia card (D-Link DWA-652) that I'm running on a
> laptop using F8.  I'm connecting to an old access point that only
> understands WEP.  I can plug the card in, and it will come up reliably.
>
> The behavior of NetworkManager regressed from F7 to F8, so I disabled
> it:
> chkconfig NetworkManager off
>
> Secondly, the ath5k module was getting loaded, even with an "alias ath5k
> off" in modprobe.conf, so I removed it from /lib/modules.  There's
> probably a better way, but I was too lazy to look up the interaction
> with pcmcia hotplug events.  Since you have a PCI card, it may not be a
> problem with you.
>
> Finally, I changed the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 to:
>
> DEVICE=ath0
> MODE=Managed
> WIRELESS=yes
> RATE=Auto
> ONBOOT=no
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> HWADDR=00:01:02:03:04:05
> ESSID=MYESSID
> KEY=mywepkey
>
> You'll need to change ONBOOT to yes, and supply your own values for
> HWADDR, ESSID, and KEY.  If you're not using dhcp then change bootproto
> to none.
>
> Also, I had to build the madwifi drivers from an svn checkout to get
> support for my chipset.
>
> Good luck,
> Dave
>
>
>   
Thanks!!!! My wireless is now finally working :). Not to be a pain but 
at home I use WPA2 Personal as my encryption. Is there anyway to 
configure the wireless for wpa w/out using NetworkManager?


Thanks Again,

gs