Wireless Adapter not Identified after 2days of digging the net

[arabbani]

Hello everyone

I have a Vaio VGN-FW12G laptop. when I turn on my wireless,Fedora 9 only recognizes Bluetooth. I've searched and installed madwifi, but nothing happened. Then I searched and in Marvell site I found a driver for it but I couldn't even install it. there was an error while making it.


http://www.marvell.com/drivers/drive...o?driverId=203

Now I'm really exhausted of searching for it.
PLEASE HELP ME FIX IT.

[waterhead]

Hi, please read through the post that I linked to below. Then post the info it asks for in this thread.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tml#post589924

We'll then see what we can do to help you.

[arabbani]

The first thing you wanted:

[arabbani@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Cantiga Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cantiga PCI Express Graphics Port [8086:2a41] (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2946] (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2948] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Mobilitiy Radeon HD 3400 Series [1002:95c4]
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series] [1002:aa28]
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Unknown device [168c:002a] (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4363] (rev 13)
0a:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
0a:03.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
0a:03.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
[arabbani@localhost ~]$

The next:

[arabbani@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vfat                   13056  0 
fat                    43040  1 vfat
hci_usb                16412  0 
bridge                 45336  0 
bnep                   14336  2 
rfcomm                 34064  4 
l2cap                  21632  16 bnep,rfcomm
bluetooth              46308  6 hci_usb,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
fuse                   47516  3 
sunrpc                153876  3 
ipt_REJECT              6656  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv4      11528  2 
iptable_filter          6528  1 
ip_tables              13840  1 iptable_filter
ip6t_REJECT             7296  2 
xt_tcpudp               6656  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      15992  2 
xt_state                5888  4 
nf_conntrack           50132  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
ip6table_filter         6400  1 
ip6_tables             14864  1 ip6table_filter
x_tables               15236  6 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ip6_tables
cpufreq_ondemand       10124  1 
acpi_cpufreq           11660  1 
loop                   17164  0 
dm_multipath           18056  0 
sr_mod                 17064  0 
cdrom                  33304  1 sr_mod
ipv6                  234428  20 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
snd_hda_intel         321692  3 
snd_seq_dummy           6532  0 
snd_seq_oss            29212  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                44736  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          9740  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            36480  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16384  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                60676  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
uvcvideo               49928  0 
sony_laptop            30684  0 
snd_timer              20744  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
sdhci                  17540  0 
video                  20240  0 
snd_page_alloc         11016  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
compat_ioctl32          5120  1 uvcvideo
firewire_ohci          22020  0 
mmc_core               40604  1 sdhci
output                  6656  1 video
sky2                   41732  0 
firewire_core          35360  1 firewire_ohci
i2c_i801               11536  0 
snd_hwdep              10244  1 snd_hda_intel
usblp                  14464  0 
joydev                 12480  0 
videodev               29824  1 uvcvideo
snd                    46136  15 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
crc_itu_t               5760  1 firewire_core
pcspkr                  6272  0 
serio_raw               8708  0 
i2c_core               20500  1 i2c_i801
usb_storage            79880  0 
v4l1_compat            15876  2 uvcvideo,videodev
battery                14212  0 
soundcore               9288  1 snd
ac                      8068  0 
sg                     30900  0 
dm_snapshot            18468  0 
dm_zero                 5632  0 
dm_mirror              20096  0 
dm_log                 12036  1 dm_mirror
dm_mod                 47924  10 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_log
ahci                   27016  2 
libata                132456  1 ahci
sd_mod                 26008  3 
scsi_mod              122876  5 sr_mod,usb_storage,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  108680  2 
jbd                    40852  1 ext3
mbcache                10116  1 ext3
uhci_hcd               22928  0 
ohci_hcd               22532  0 
ehci_hcd               32780  0

Finally the last:

[arabbani@localhost ~]$ dmesg
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Linux version 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Sat Sep 20 03:45:00 EDT 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009d000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bfda5000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfda5000 - 00000000bfdcc000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfdcc000 - 00000000bfddd000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfddd000 - 00000000bfdde000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfdde000 - 00000000bfe04000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe04000 - 00000000bfe05000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe05000 - 00000000bfe06000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe06000 - 00000000bfe12000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe12000 - 00000000bfe18000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe18000 - 00000000bfe37000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe37000 - 00000000bff00000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffa00000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable)
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
Warning only 4GB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel.
3200MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at [c00fd170] 000fd170
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 1048576) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->     4096
  Normal       4096 ->   229376
  HighMem    229376 ->  1048576
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->  1048576
On node 0 totalpages: 1048576
  DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 6400 pages used for memmap
  HighMem zone: 812800 pages, LIFO batch:31
  Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.4 present.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: RSDP 000F03C0, 0024 (r2   Sony)
ACPI: XSDT BFE10F10, 0054 (r1   Sony     VAIO 20080605 MSFT    10013)
ACPI: FACP BFE04A90, 00F4 (r4   Sony     VAIO 20080605 MSFT    10013)
ACPI: DSDT BFE06010, 8016 (r1   Sony     VAIO 20080605 INTL 20051117)
ACPI: FACS BFE17D40, 0040
ACPI: APIC BFE0FF10, 006C (r2   Sony     VAIO 20080605 MSFT    10013)
ACPI: MCFG BFE16C90, 003C (r1   Sony     VAIO 20080605 MSFT       97)
ACPI: HPET BFE16C10, 0038 (r1   Sony     VAIO 20080605 MSFT    10013)
ACPI: SLIC BFE12C10, 0176 (r1   Sony     VAIO 20080605 Sony  1000000)
ACPI: SSDT BFDDD690, 05F9 (r1   Sony     VAIO 20080605 INTL 20051117)
ACPI: DMI detected: Sony
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x02] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a301 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at c0000000 (gap: bff00000:20100000)
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009d000 - 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 2 hotplug CPUs
PERCPU: Allocating 40872 bytes of per cpu data
NR_CPUS: 32, nr_cpu_ids: 4
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 1040384
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07c6000 soft=c07a6000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Extended CMOS year: 2000
Detected 2260.568 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 3101228k/4194304k available (2258k kernel code, 41652k reserved, 1152k data, 284k init, 2226616k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xffc53000 - 0xfffff000   (3760 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xff400000 - 0xff800000   (4096 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff3fe000   ( 107 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
      .init : 0xc075c000 - 0xc07a3000   ( 284 kB)
      .data : 0xc0634808 - 0xc0754980   (1152 kB)
      .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc0634808   (2258 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
CPA: page pool initialized 1 of 1 pages preallocated
SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
hpet clockevent registered
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4527.83 BogoMIPS (lpj=2263915)
Security Framework initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Initializing cgroup subsys ns
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
Initializing cgroup subsys devices
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 3072K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.

[arabbani]

I installed ndiswrapper using:

yum install kmod-ndiswrapper

and it was installed succefully.
but after I followed the instructions, this is what happened:

[root@localhost arabbani]# ndiswrapper -i /home/arabbani/Desktop/Driver/
bash: ndiswrapper: command not found
[root@localhost arabbani]#

this means ndiswrapper is not successfuly installed.
but:

[root@localhost arabbani]# yum install kmod-ndiswrapper
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package kmod-ndiswrapper-1.53-4.lvn9.1.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@localhost arabbani]#

[arabbani]

Please help me!!!!!!!!!!

Please

[arabbani]

owwwwwwwww..............

I've searched again and found that I must install madwifi. I got the file from SourceForge and when I try to install it there are errors:

[arabbani@localhost madwifi-0.9.4]$ make
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... ok.
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686/build SUBDIRS=/home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686'
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath_pci.o
  LD [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/ath_pci.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_hal/ah_os.o
  HOSTCC  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_hal/uudecode
  UUDECODE /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_hal/i386-elf.hal.o
  LD [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_hal/ath_hal.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/amrr/amrr.o
  LD [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/amrr/ath_rate_amrr.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/minstrel/minstrel.o
  LD [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/minstrel/ath_rate_minstrel.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/onoe/onoe.o
  LD [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/onoe/ath_rate_onoe.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/sample/sample.o
  LD [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/ath_rate/sample/ath_rate_sample.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/if_media.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_beacon.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_crypto.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_crypto_none.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_input.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_node.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_output.o
  CC [M]  /home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.o
/home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.c: In function 'ieee80211_pwrsave':
/home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.c:240: error: implicit declaration of function '__skb_append'
make[3]: *** [/home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/arabbani/Download/madwifi-0.9.4] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[arabbani@localhost madwifi-0.9.4]$

[waterhead]

First, if you want help you have to have some patience. Most of us have day jobs and can only offer help in our spare time.

Also, by installing all kinds of different drivers, you may mess things up and make it nearly impossible to get it to work. NDISwrapper, for one, will interfere with any actual Linux driver you try to install and use. So, if you want to try the Linux driver, I would uninstall NDISwrapper first.

Now, there are actually two drivers that may be used with this card. The Madwifi is one of them. The other MAY be the ath9k driver, by the same people as the Madwifi driver.

If you are going to use Madwifi, I recommend installing the latest snapshot of the driver. It can be found here:
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi...current.tar.gz

Follow these instructions, and make sure that you have the listed dependencies installed first.
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

Another poster just installed this very same snapshot. Read through this thread for info on compiling it.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...tml#post635027

Here is a link to the ath9k driver, if you are interested.
ath9k - Linux Wireless

I'm not 100% positive that this (ath9k) is for your wireless. If there is any way that you can look at the wireless circuit board and the model numbers on the chip, that would be the best way to determine the best driver.

[arabbani]

I tried to use that SVN but couldn't install it.

So I tried this again:

# yum install madwifi

after downloading, everything seemed to be ok and installation was successful. But after installing, there is no change with my atheros wireless adapter. The strange thing is that when I try a madwifi command e.g "ath_pci", It says command not found.

[waterhead]

That is because ath_pci is not a command. If that is what you thought, then you are not reading and following the instructions correctly. This would apply to installing and compiling from source too.

You are still too impatient. You are just going to make things worse. When you have a problem, you must ask for help before trying other things.

I do see that you have a very recent kernel. How did that kernel get installed? I think that you should be using an older kernel, then you wouldn't have so much trouble.

Also, as long as you have this thread open, do not start another one on the same subject, as it is against forum rules. I closed the other thread that you opened, about compiling the driver. Keep it all in one thread!

EDIT: Madwifi has a page covering common errors that occur when compiling, and their solutions:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/BuildProblems

[arabbani]

I searched through madwifi.org pages and found a page about hardware requirements. my Atheros chipset was not there. I updated my pci.isd file and now the result of lspci is more specific:

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
0a:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
0a:03.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
0a:03.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
[root@localhost ~]#

What we see here?? my chipset is AR928X. madwifi doesn't support it. so I searched more and I found that I must install ath9k(through that madwifi.org). But I will wait till you suggest me doing that.
(patience)