Hey. First of all, congrats: this is the best walkthrough I've seen up today. Complete and essential.
I'll jump the downloading and installing Wireless Extensions and drivers, 'cause I had it all.
I'm running on a Fedora Core 3, my card is a Siemens Santis 11mb.
I configured my wlan card for static ip using, then opened FireFox for surfing the web, but it seems I'm not connected.
I opened KWiFi Manager (GUI wifi configure tool that comes w/ fedora core 3), and it says I'm connected:
right essid, right channel, right wep, right MAC of the access point, right local IP.
But no connection to the web.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advice!

Hi There,

I recently upgraded my madwifi driver to the current version. The latest version uses the "wifi0" device as a placeholder for the physical "ath0" device (whearas older versions of the madwifi driver simply created the ath0 device directly).

It is now necessary to run the following commands after compiling and installing the driver modules:

> wlconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
> iwconfig ath0 essid NETGEAR
> ifconfig ath0 192.168.0.5 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

My question is, what is the best way to start up the "ath0" device on boot and make the above configuration permament.

Previously we were just able to configure the "ath0" device in "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0"
But now we need to bring the device into existence via the "wifi0" device using iwconfig ....

Should we do this in by adding the 3 lines of script above into /etc/rc.d/rc.local?
Does the wifi0 device need to exist everytime we want to use ath0?

It would be great to hear how others have tackled this and what the most elegant solution is.

Thx.