Networking :: Airlink 101 Wireless woes

Hello,

I do not find the Wiki Sysop e-mail address, so excuse me for putting this message here, please. I have an Ovislink (108) pcmcia net card with an Atheros chipset (Atheros 5001) and my laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDS (Intel Celeron 150 MHz, 64 Mb RAM, boots DSL with "fb800x600" option). It does not work "out of the box" (wiki dixit) with DSL, (it does with DSL-N), but it takes a very little effort:

1- Go to MyDSL -> UCI and select Madwifi-NG and, in the ATerminal console, as root ("sudo su"), do this:
2- pkill pump
3- sudo sh /opt/madwifi-ng-2.4.26/madwifi_setup.sh
4- ifconfig ath0 up
5- iwconfig ath0 essid XXXXX key XXXXX
(Remember that you can search for avaliable routers with "iwlist ath0 scan")
6- pump -i ath0

(you can write steps from 2 to 6 in a file called start_wifi.sh, for example, (with "sleep 2"" between 3 and 4 and between 5 and 6), and execute it with "sudo sh start_wifi.sh")

(With DSL-N, you just need steps from 4 to 6, (write eth0 or eth1 instead of ath0))

(I had a D-Link G650+ PCMCIA net card, but it seemed not to work properly with the acx driver (neither with ndiswrapper), so I changed it for the Ovislink one)

I hope this can be usefull for Atheros card owners.

Side note:
Why do you need the wiki sysop email? Anyways its John and WinterKnight who have access to that afaik. You could make your own wiki account too.

Thank you for the advise. I have forgotten to write that the Atheros card is shown as an "AR5212" model by DSL and the graphic card as a "Trident Cyber 9525" one.

original here.