how to get my wireless working with Fedora 9?
Hello Everyone,\
I have an HP dv6855ee with AMD processor and Atheros wireless, when I installed Fedora 9 yesterday, I wasn't able to work my wireless card. here is a message that I get when I type in [root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep -i net 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP65 Ethernet (rev a3) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) so based on the above command, Fedora sees my wireless controller which is the Atheros Comm. but still I cannot work it, does anyone know how to work it? |
Hi,
lspci only shows you the hardware in you PC, if a piece of hardware doesn't show up there, something is physically wrong with it. To your problem, madwifi is your solution, search for it in the package manager, or try following this thread : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...atheros+ar5007 Drop out the ubuntu specific parts (apt-get). Or just use ndiswrapper : http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net |
Hi serafean,
thanks for your reply, ok so I have downloaded ndiswrapper1.52 and saved it in my Desktop and found my windows wirless driver to be arth.sys and copied that and placed in my desktop... now what? I have tried to install ndiswrapper-1.52 but couldn't do it... i tried yum I tried make but couldn't do it... don't mind me im new to linux, could you pls. describe it step by step... your assistance regarding this matter is highly appreciated. many thanks Rouad |
Hi, I'd suggest the yum method, the best would be to run it from a console and post the errors that occur.
for make, open a console and unpack the downloaded package, then change to the directory containing the unpacked files, run make and make install Code:
$tar -xvzf ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz (unpack sources) Serafean |
Hi Serafean,
here is what I did: [root@localhost Desktop]# tar -xvzf ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz ndiswrapper-1.52/ ndiswrapper-1.52/AUTHORS ndiswrapper-1.52/ChangeLog ndiswrapper-1.52/INSTALL ndiswrapper-1.52/Makefile ndiswrapper-1.52/README ndiswrapper-1.52/ndiswrapper.spec ndiswrapper-1.52/ndiswrapper.8 ndiswrapper-1.52/loadndisdriver.8 ndiswrapper-1.52/utils/ ndiswrapper-1.52/utils/Makefile ndiswrapper-1.52/utils/ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-1.52/utils/loadndisdriver.c ndiswrapper-1.52/utils/ndiswrapper-buginfo ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/ ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/divdi3.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/hal.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/iw_ndis.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/iw_ndis.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/loader.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/loader.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/longlong.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/Makefile ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/crt.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/ndis.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/ndis.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/ndiswrapper.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/ntoskernel.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/ntoskernel.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/ntoskernel_io.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/pe_linker.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/pe_linker.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/pnp.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/pnp.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/proc.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/rtl.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/usb.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/usb.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/winnt_types.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/workqueue.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/wrapmem.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/wrapmem.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/wrapper.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/wrapndis.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/wrapndis.c ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/lin2win.h ndiswrapper-1.52/driver/win2lin_stubs.S [root@localhost Desktop]# dir ndiswrapper-1.52 ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz RealPlayer11GOLD.bin [root@localhost Desktop]# cd ndiswrapper-1.52 [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# dir AUTHORS driver loadndisdriver.8 ndiswrapper.8 README ChangeLog INSTALL Makefile ndiswrapper.spec utils [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# make make -C driver make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Rouad/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.52/driver' Makefile:24: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Rouad/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.52/driver' make: *** [all] Error 2 [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# what does this mean? |
and this is what happened when I used the Yum command:
[root@localhost Desktop]# dir ndiswrapper-1.52 ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz RealPlayer11GOLD.bin [root@localhost Desktop]# yum install ndiswrapper-1.52 Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments No package ndiswrapper-1.52 available. Nothing to do [root@localhost Desktop]# now what? |
I think you need the kernel header files. by far the easiest way is go into the terminal and run as root:
yum install madwifi |
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To compile from source, vertigo is right, you need kernel header files. Quote:
Serafean |
I thank everyone for their responses, however, it still didn't work
this is the entire process: [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# ls AUTHORS driver loadndisdriver.8 ndiswrapper.8 README ChangeLog INSTALL Makefile ndiswrapper.spec utils [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# cd .. [root@localhost Desktop]# ls ndiswrapper-1.52 ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz vista-1.0.116.20-whql.zip [root@localhost Desktop]# unzip vista-1.0.116.20.20-whql.zip unzip: cannot find or open vista-1.0.116.20.20-whql.zip, vista-1.0.116.20.20-whql.zip.zip or vista-1.0.116.20.20-whql.zip.ZIP. [root@localhost Desktop]# unzip vista-1.0.116.20-whql.zip Archive: vista-1.0.116.20-whql.zip inflating: athr.sys inflating: athrext.cat inflating: netathr.inf [root@localhost Desktop]# ls athrext.cat ndiswrapper-1.52 netathr.inf athr.sys ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz vista-1.0.116.20-whql.zip [root@localhost Desktop]# cp netathr.inf athrext.cat athr.sys ndiswrapper-1.52 [root@localhost Desktop]# cd ndiswrapper-1.52 [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# ls athrext.cat ChangeLog loadndisdriver.8 ndiswrapper.spec utils athr.sys driver Makefile netathr.inf AUTHORS INSTALL ndiswrapper.8 README [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# ndiswrapper -i netathr.inf installing netathr ... couldn't find models section "Atheros" - installation may be incomplete I don't know why it didn't work, I appreciate if anyone can help me. thanks -Rouad |
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