can't make madwifi 0.9.3 find my embedded Atheros card
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can't make madwifi 0.9.3 find my embedded Atheros card
ok, i got a Toshiba laptop (Equium, low-end) with an internal Atheros card. it was running Vista when i got it, and the card worked fine, but on switching to Fedora 8 i get no dice. kernel version is 2.6.23.14-107.fc8, i can't get the exact type of Atheros card.
i installed madwifi from source, then from yum, to try and make the card work, but in Network Manager i get this when i try to activate the wifi0 device that madwifi created:
"Device wlan1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."
i know the card is definitely present, its little switch is turned on at the side of the machine and it worked fine under Vista. help a noob out guys, i don't wanna try and hack under XP...
Does "lspci" show the name and revision of the card? That is going to be important for figuring out what you need to do. If you have the revision you can then check it against the compatibility list.
You might want to try a development version of the driver as well through SVN, as they might have recently added support for it.
Ndiswrapper might be an option if the native drivers are bust, but you definitely want to save that as a last resort.
lspci just gives me "bash: lspci: command not found". there some other command does the same thing, or am i being some sort of moron here?
i did dig up the spec sheet and the wireless card drivers from the Toshiba discontinued models site, though. going through the XP driver i found this version textfile:
2007/09/06 Atheros 802.11a/b/g,b/g Mini-PCI/PCIe Driver v5.3.0.67 for Windows XP
You may need to be root to run lspci, I can't remember. But it (lspci) must be there.
madwifi will create an ath0 device in addition to wifi0. This is what you should be looking for.
I do seem to recall that there are some newer Atheros chipsets that madwifi does not support just yet.
lsmod will tell you if the madwifi module is being loaded. To load it, you can try modprobe ath_pci (as root).
ifconfig should list all the network interfaces the system knows about. If you see ath0, you can run iwconfig to get more specific wireless NIC data. (iwconfig requires that wireless-tools be installed).
I have a a65 toshiba and it has a 5211/12 atheros and F8 picked it up right away. No madwifi,thank goodness, needed.
Er, MadWiFi is the only Linux driver for Atheros cards. So you are using MadWiFi, you just didn't need to manually configure it since your device was automatically detected.
rooster, you might be right, buddy - according to the compat list, it's equally likely to be a 5007 masquerading as an 06 through lspci's misreporting. so, i'm trying a weirdass patch it suggested, and if that don't work, i'm gonna open a new question... didn't realise they died so quickly
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