atheros madwifi driver not working

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Martín Marqués wrote:
> I just got a Compaq Presario F700 which has an Atheros chip based wifi
> PCI express card. I check on the web and found that I had to install
> madwifi-hal.
>
> I can't find that package in livna, nor can I find it in atrpms, so I
> installed kmod-madwifi and madwifi from livna (which installed for
> dependencies iwl4965-firmware), but even though the module gets loaded
> automatically, the card doesn't work.
>
> What's wrong?
>   
You probably have the wrong driver.

I have AR5007EG and but lspci indicates it's an AR242.

If you have Windows installed, look at the device under
Windows.

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