Hi, I upgraded to FC6 yesterday. And now my WiFi card does not work anymore. I have a Netgear WG311T which has an Atheros AT5212 chip. This chip should work with the madwifi package - and did in FC5! But now I get

"FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (.../net/ath_pci.ko): Invalid module format" ??

I tried both, the rpms (madwifi, madwifi-kmdl, madwifi-hal-kmdl) from ATrpms and downloading the tarball from madwifi.org and compiling it...

...the same error!

Any help appreciated!!

OK, now my Atheros AR5212 card is detected, but it is detected as an ethernet device! This means I am unable to create the correct configuration because the card does not know any wireless extensions...

I installed the madwifi drivers, did 'modprobe ath_pci', also added 'alias ath0 ath_pci' to my modprobe.conf file, as suggested on madwifi.org, but still: Fedora configures the card (correctly identified by its vendor name, etc.) as an ethernet card!?

The strangest thing is that the device is called wifi0!! Why does Fedora call an ethernet device (at least it thinks it is one) wifi0?? And why does it not call it ath0 - according to my line in the modprobe.conf??

Help, please...

same problem.
seems that both the kernel and the mod have different compile versions (i.e your compiler has been upgraded after installation so the mods were compiled with a different version and the kernel doesn't like that)
I dont know how to solve this yet, will get back later.

Hi,

My penguin is Debian, however does this help if any?

http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/faq.php

Happy Penguins!