atheros madwifi driver not working

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sat Oct 11 23:33:55 UTC 2008


Agile Aspect wrote:
> 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.
>
That wifi device is not going to work under the kernel-2.6.26, but the 
kernel-2.6.27 has the drivers for that chipset and they work perfect in 
FC10.
I have a eeePC702 with the Ar5007EG and is working great in FC10.




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