Atheros cards with Madwifi Kernel Modules

Requirements

1. Read our Getting Started with Wireless Guide.
   
2. This assumes you have a working Fedora installation and that you have http://fedoramobile.org/solved/post-install-solutions/yum-config/
   

Doing the work

1. Update your system
   

   su -c "yum update"

   If your kernel was among the items updated you will want to reboot.
2. Install the kernel module and other parts
   

   su -c "yum install madwifi"

   This installs all necessary files.
3. Reboot

More Information

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

Added Reading

• http://fedorasolved.org/
• http://rpmfusion.org
  
• http://madwifi.org/
• http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
• http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/RedHat
• http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/madwifi
• http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k