[ltp] R40 with IBM a/b/g WLAN adapter (Atheros chipset) and Fedora Core 2

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Florian Holeczek wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I've spent the whole sunday with trying to get to work my Fedora Core 2
> installation together with my IBM a/b/g wlan adapter (Atheros chipset). I
> tried to install MADwifi and wpa_supplicant, but it wouldn't work.
>
> It always says that there is no ath_pci (ath0) Hardware when booting,
> although I'm sure it is ;-) and even once kudzu detected and installed it.
>
> Is there anybody on the list who already succeeded in doing this job?
>
> I'm not into doing kernel things, maybe the following has to do with the
> problem: When checking dmesg it says that the symbol ieee80211_XYZ (about 10
> different entries) could not be found.
>
> Thanks for your replies in advance.
>

If you don't need WPA - you could use the precompiled kernel-module-madwifi
from atrpms. You'll need atrpms...rpm as well.

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/madwifi/
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/atrpms/

Satish