Installing Madwifi Kernel Modules
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Wireless
Installing and using the madwifi kernel modules from the RPMFusion repo is very simple and gets wireless going painlessly.
Requirements
- Read our Getting Started with Wireless Guide.
- This assumes you have a working Fedora installation and that
you have configured yum to use RPMFusion.
Doing the work
- Update your system
su -c "yum update"
If your kernel was among the items updated you will want to reboot. - Install the kernel module and other parts
su -c "yum install madwifi kmod-madwifi"
This installs the Kernel Module Module for a standard kernel. There are 4 versions available for i386 kmod-madwifi kmod-madwifi-kdump kmod-madwifi-smp kmod-madwifi-xen0 - Add the following lines to your /etc/modprobe.conf as root
## Start Atheros Stuff
alias wifi0 ath_pci
alias ath0 ath_pci
options ath_pci autocreate=sta
## End Atheros StuffIf "alias wifi0 ath_pci" is listed already please omit it from your addition.
- Reboot
- Configure your ath0 wireless card normally
su -c "system-config-network"
Troubleshooting
How to test
ping yahoo.com
The results should appear as below
PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=274 ms
[...]
Common problems and fixes
- An anaconda bug in FC6 may have caused you to end
up with an i586 kernel on your system. You can check this with one
of the following two commands:
su -c "yum -d 0 list kernel"
if you see "kernel.i586 Installed" please follow the suggested resolution listed here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941#c24. Once you have removed the .i586 kernel complete the steps above and you should have no issues.
rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' 'kernel*'
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
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