Networking :: Atheros Problem (again)

It's a new card but who knows how new ;^) AR2511 Rev 8.

I let my Fedora Core 2 box compile the madwifi driver to so see what a full linux distribution will do with the makefiles. Compiled just fine. The kernelsource.dsl is not enough of the source tree, I suspect. Is there a download for the entire DSL 1.4 source (groan).

Thanks.

Quoting Inspecter Clousou (sp>), "I have solve-ed" the problem.

I still don't what why DSL 1.4 won't see my card. I suspect a race condition in module loading, hotplug and pcmia modules.

With some advice from "tempestuous" and a whole lot of time, I built a kernel and madwifi modules using just DSL and it works! The kernel and the card! No cross build environment needed. No other host needed except for the multitude of downloads.

Details can be found on my blog entry. Warning. It's not for the point and click folks. I probably missed a step in the instructions. YMMV, yada, yada.

i am having the same problem with the Atheros AR5004G Wireless Network Adapter #2, DSL can see it, but I can get the damn thing to get on the network, what am I doing wrong?

cantormath

Cantormath,

I don't know the details of your card by the numbers and brand words. But start at the beginning. What does "lspci" show?

Is it a PCI card or a PCMCIA/Cardbus card? If the latter, what does 'cardctl info' show for the slot the card is in? What version of DSL are you running? Hdinstall or running from CD? Are they error messages related to the card when you do a 'dmesg'

First we need to know if or how linux sees the card and has the drivers for it. Then we can figure out how to configure it or worry about what you might be doing wrong. There are bugs in DSL and madwifi and certain cards in certain situations.

Although it may be a false lead, who makes the card? how do you know it's a AR5004G. When did you buy the card. Is it 802 a/b/g or some combo? I know less than dirt about wireless, that's why I'm asking the simple questions.

Of course the obvious question. Do you know that the card works with your base station/router/access-point in another OS or Linux variant?

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