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Centos+D-link Wireless LAN

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.

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.

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.

so theres no solution yet?

I also update my kernel.

Quote:

# uname -r
2.6.18-92.1.6.el5

But still doesnt work.

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.

thaks for ur suggestion.

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

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.

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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