Hi there.

Recently I installed Fedora Core 5 on my laptop, and I am now wanting to make my Netgear WG511T work with it. I know this can be done as I have seen many posts on other sites from people saying they'd done it. Bad thing is, no one bothered to tell anyone how they did it. These people said to use the madwifi driver, but this is kinda greek to me.

As I am a newbie to FC5, and Linux in general, I'm looking for someone to help me with a step by step to installing this card.

I currently use FC5, and have both Gnome and KDE installed. If someone could please help me know what to do, that would be super, and I would even share my pudding cup with you at lunch.

Thanks,

Rob

* Download the madwifi source from http://madwifi.org/
* IMPORTANT: You must have the source of the current kernel installed to compile madwifi.
* Now if you are using the default kernel or one from a Repo site. Make sure you have the kernel-devel-****.rpm rpm file that matches the current running kernel.
Example kernel-2.6.15.984.rpm requires kernel-devel-2.6.15.984.rpm
* If compiled your own then you would have the source ready to go.

* Once you have the bove then extract the madwifi source file to say a temp location.
* Open a terminal session and goto the extracted source location.
* Run the command ' make '
* Run the command ' su ' and enter root's password.
* Run the command ' make install '

Now if no errors come up then it should be installed. Configure ath0 and start the nic.

Note: if you upgrade the kernel you need the kernel-devel for it and then recompile the madwifi driver for that kernel.

Also read the Install and readme files from the source. Good reading and solves many issues. Also check out the Wiki for madwifi if you have other issues.

Brian1

This just posted over at fedora-forums from Jebba33. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...700#post511700

Brian1

Thanks Brian1. I'm kind of cutting my teeth here with Linux, and it's great to have people willing to help. I haven't gotten the card running yet, but it seems to be doing alright so far, knock on wood.

Ok, so I tried to get the kernel-devel for my kernel, and I can't find it. I know my kernel is 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5, but I can't find anything above .2080.

I tried using yum to get the thing, and the only thing that comes up is the .2080, and I tried using the distro disc but only found the 2.6.15.

I'll keep looking, but can someone please help incase I turn up more nothing?

Ok, I *think* I found the right kernel devel, but upon running the make command, I get this error:

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5/build: No such file or directory


/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.

Any ideas?

This just gets better and better. I found my last problem, the kernel devel was wrong. It was for a i586 rather than a i686. I have since rectified this problem, but now a new error occurs.

Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... FAILED
Only kernel versions 2.4.x and above are supported.
You have .
make: *** [configcheck] Error 1

I think my best bet at this point would be to try to take my kernel down to version 2.6.16-1.2080, but any other ideas are welcome.

If someone would be so kind as to help me know how to change to that kernel version, that would be super good. Yum gives me the option of getting the devel for 2080 rather than hunting down 3rd party rpms.

Yeah, so I'm editing this to let everyone know that even though I have the proper kernel devel for the 2096 that it's still not working. I'm going to check to be sure that I have the correct madwifi file now.

I am at a lost as to why it does not work. My only last thought is build your own kernel from source. Check this link out to do that. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...36#post1401136


Brian1

Well, here I sit, a broken man....

Acutally, I'm pretty chilled. I decided to just go ahead and reformat the whole thing and clean slate it. I've just been experimenting with Fedora anyway, nothing major will be lost.

Turns out that the kernel had been updated without my knowlege while I was at work, which is why I didn't have the standard kernel. Now, once things are up and running again, I'll be back on the 2.6.15-whatever, which has a ton more support from what I've seen thus far.

Thanks Brian1 for all your great advice, and I hope to be able to come back later and tell you that everything went just peachy.

Ok,

I can't seem to leave this alone, the only thing I can think of is that perhaps I'm not doing something right. Not typing something correctly, something like that. I've tried 3 different kernel versions, all of which give me the same error.

Here's my process, start to finish. See if you can find something I'm messing up.

1.) Using Subversion, I download the madwifi-ng file.
2.) Using the package manager, I install the kernel-devel that matches my current kernel version.
3.) Using the terminal window I type this:4.) Shrugging off the last of my shame and disappointment, I come crying back here for help

Does anyone see anything wrong with this? I hope someone can see something stupid that I've boned up and help me fix it.

Do you have the make rpm installed? ' rpm -qa | grep make '

Brian1

I'm not sure if I have it or not. How would I go about checking?

Run the command ' rpm -qa | grep make ' and post the output.

Brian1

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep make
make-3.80-10.2
[root@localhost ~]#