Atheros cards with Madwifi Kernel Modules

by thomasj — last modified May 12, 2009 11:44 AM
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How to get Wireless Lan Atheros Cards (not working with ath5k, ath9k) to work in Fedora 9+ with NetworkManager.

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

  • https://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
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