[PigeonBomb]

Brand new to linux and trying to learn all tricks linux has to offer. I have an ABS Mayhem G2 which is a pretty obscure laptop but runs like a dream. I installed Fedora applied an upgraded Kernel and right off the bat it picked up almost all my hardware. I can see that Fedora can see one of my two wireless cards which is a mini pci intel 2200 b/g pro but I cant configure the thing to connect to my wireless network. My other wireless card is a netgear wpn511 card which Fedora doesn't want to seem to use at all despite all the feedback its a good wireless card for linux. I googeled arond a bit with no luck. I went to the terminal and ran /sbin/lspci and pasted the output below. If someone could help a lost windows user configure his wireless it would be greatly appreciated.

[Juston@PigeonBomb ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
02:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Memory Card Reader Controller
02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

Thanks in advance.


EDIT:

I finally got the card to appear in the network configuration tool and was able to enter the router ssid and wep but everytime I try to start the device it says the device doesnt exist. Then when I go to the hardware configuration part of the network tool and try to alter anything in there it generates this error message.

Command failed: /sbin/modprobe 3c501

Output:
FATAL: Error inserting 3c501 (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/3c501.ko): No such device

I got nothing on this, I don't even know what I did to get the device to appear in the network config tool. Again any help would be great. Thanks.

[zacam87]

im having the same excat problem i have the same card and i cant get fedora to recognise it,,, now with the whole thing about you getting

Command failed: /sbin/modprobe 3c501

uhmmm thats a 3com 3c501 ethernet controller if im not mistaken... thats why it cant find what your looking for.. it should be looking for the atheros AR5212 i think... i havent figured it out yet myself but it autoconfigures using phlak so i know theres a way to make it work.. jsut dont know how.. and for somereason theres no "ath0" which is what it should be under... thought that strange.. anyone elce know? -ZAc

[zacam87]

is there any way this can be moved to the fedora forum?

[critour]

I also have the Netgear WPN511 and am not seeing it configured (running fedora 6) - guess I'll continue searching... Did either of you guys get yours working yet?