D-link Wireless LAN In Centos 5.1

megerdin · 06-30-2008, 07:19 AM

I m using FC from long, Recently move to Centos 5.1 Because FC Is not stable and change after 6 months.
I used D-link Wireless LAN in FC successfully with madwifi installed. But same way tried to installed in Centoc But I can't. madwifi installed sucessfully but the driver is not build. below is my lspci

Quote:

#lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

Is there any native driver for this card or any other way to Installed in centos.

I appreciate you opinion.

Larry Webb · 07-01-2008, 07:04 AM

I ran into a similar problem with a ralink card and the problem was the kernel was too old, I had a 2-6-18 and it needed to be a later version. I upgraded and solved the problem.

Larry Webb · 07-01-2008, 07:17 AM

By the way I tried it with a linux driver than I thought it was just the driver so I used ndiswrapper with the supplied windows drivers and it still would not work with the older kernel.

megerdin · 07-01-2008, 07:47 AM

so theres no solution yet?

I also update my kernel.

Quote:

# uname -r
2.6.18-92.1.6.el5

But still doesnt work.

Larry Webb · 07-01-2008, 08:14 AM

I can not remember where I found my information at, the website or the readme supplied with the linux driver. My card had to have a 2.6.22 kernel or better. I am not saying this is your problem but it is something to consider. You could always update your kernel but I would think it would be easier to update your distro or better yet find a card that you know will work.

megerdin · 07-01-2008, 09:24 AM

thaks for ur suggestion.

Still trying to use this card. and still searching for more inf.

r00tb33r · 07-01-2008, 11:33 AM

Build the latest madwifi from source. No need to update kernel. The build compiles the module for your current kernel.
After that do rmmod ath_pci ath_hal or something like that and then do modprobe ath_pci and see the dmesg output.
I'd restart after building and installing though.

megerdin · 07-02-2008, 07:24 AM

Thanks I will try

mhrichter · 07-02-2008, 01:54 PM

I got a D-Link USB Wifi stick and used ndiswrapper and the Window$ driver and had no trouble with it at all.

(CentOS 5.1, old Toshiba Tecra laptop, worked great.)

mhr

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