setting up wireless

Hi,
I have an IBM R51 laptop and am running mandrake linux 10.1 on it.
Linux recoginises my wirless card as
Vendor: ‎Atheros Communications Inc.
Description: ‎AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter
Media class: ‎NETWORK_ETHERNET

But it asks me to load a driver manually to set it up. I tried several options. They didnt work.
How do I find the right driver?
Thanks.
ligne

Just an FYI,

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro with AR5001X mini PCI Wireless Adapter and have never been able to get it to work with MDK.

The Only dist. I have tried that actually works so far is Mepis, which is what I now use for all my lappys.

If yo get it working, post how here.

Thanks.

madwifi supports Atheros cards: http://madwifi.otaku42.de/madwifi-cvs-current.tar.bz2

i tried to compile the driver and got the following errors
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/linux/smp.h:29: error: conflicting types for 'smp_send_reschedule'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/asm/smp.h:41: error: previous declaration of 'smp_send_reschedule' was here
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/linux/smp.h:29: error: conflicting types for 'smp_send_reschedule'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/asm/smp.h:41: error: previous declaration of 'smp_send_reschedule' was here
any ideas
total n00b
joex :roll:

I had a nightmare getting my card to work in Mandrake (I was also a newbie while trying to work it out).

My problem was I could see a wireless card inside mandrake control center but it was showing the wrong driver. I had to use ndiswrapper to install the windows driver for my card on Mandrake. My card is a LinkSys and they don't make drivers for Linux, so this was my only option.

You might need to update your package sources first (on http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/) Then in a konsole type:

Code:

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su root
urpmi ndiswrapper

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Download the inf and sys files for your specific wlan card to your Linus computer (for example, in /var/src/devicedriver.inf)

Code:

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ndiswrapper -i /var/src/devicedriver.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -l

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This should load the driver into memory. The -l command will show you what's running. Then try:

Code:

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iwconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig

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... and let us know what happens! :)

:?
I've got KDE 3.3 up and most every package known to man but still no luck.
I too have mcc seeing the card (atheros 5005gs) but loading the wrong driver (ath_pci).
I tried to force the madwifi driver listed in MCC but that hasn't worked either. no luck yet.
gonna try the nsdiwrapper approach.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by joex

I too have mcc seeing the card (atheros 5005gs) but loading the wrong driver (ath_pci).

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Thats actually the correct driver for atheros based cards. the madwifi project makes drivers for a variety of cards, but in your case, the ath_pci driver is the correct one.

what does iwconfig spit out? after you have told mandrake to use the ath_pci driver and have set up WEP, essid etc.

See loft306's post on wireless cards under linux for more info.

iwconfig says
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

but the device is seen in MCC and with lspci?!

I can only find the .sys atheros driver. still looking for the ini. any ideas?
:? [/code]

so here's what happened....
Sometime in the upgrade....patching....urpmi....update process the 2.4.x.x.x version of the
souce kernel were installed into /usr/src. It was installed with the appropriate symbolic links too. Apparently when I upgraded the kernel to 2.6 I did not get the souce files too!! Naturally when the Madwifi went to grab source to compile, it found 2.4 source and blew up.
My soulution was as simple as
root@machine uname -a to determine the PRECISE kernel version. In my case 2.6.8.1-12
open mandrake update and search for that kernels' source mdk and install it. Mandrakes rmp manager intalled it to its default directory (/usr/src) and filled in the symbolic links.
following root@machine:/home/user/madwifi/# modprobe ath_pciAt this moment, doc wiki for the madwifi driver all else went fine!
Beware of a minor typo in the doc wiki written by Hugo Chasqueira. He states
"root@machine:/home/user/madwifi/# modprobe ath_pciAt this moment, Mandrakelinux... "
The space between ath_pci and the next part At this moment bit me once or twice but otherwise worked fine.
Special thanks to J Redinger and AlexK for there tireless devotion to this little user masmanagement!
joex Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing
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joex

hi ,

I did exactly what you say joex. but the modprobe command gives an error message.
I believe I did exactly what you mentioned.
ligne