Madwifi
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Wifi cards with Atheros chipset
Theses cards are functionning with madwifi
Checking
Check if you card is recognized by Linux
You may have a result like this:
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Installing madwifi
Load the module
Checking
Activate the interface with
With
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