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Wifi cards with Atheros chipset

Theses cards are functionning with madwifi

Checking

Check if you card is recognized by Linux

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# lspci


You may have a result like this:

 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)


Installing madwifi

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# pacman-g2 -S madwifi


Load the module

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# modprobe ath_pci


Checking

Activate the interface with

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# ifconfig ath0 up


With

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# iwlist scan


you will see a new interface ath0

Configure ath0 with gnetconfig or netconfig :-)

if all are OK, add ath_pci into file /etc/sysconfig/modules

You will have to add into /etc/sysconfig/network/default:

 pre_up = ifconfig ath0 up
 post_down = ifconfig ath0 down


ath5k

last kernel bring ath5k modules, if there is a conflict you can blacklist it by adding into /etc/sysconfig/blacklist

 blacklist ath5k
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