Fedora 7 won't recognize my wireless card

[Actright484]

thanks for that i got madwifi to install but i still can't get my wireless card found so i'm working on that now

[Actright484]

well i've bin doing all sorts of stuff with madwifi and ndiswrapper still got nothin this is not run at all. by the way thanks for the help it really has helped me get along

[MikeTbob]

I don't understand, what is the problem you are having? Once you install Madwifi, you no longer need NDISwrapper.
After you get madwifi installed, you should be able to create a new connection using the network tool (system-config-network)

[Actright484]

i still can't find my wireless card thats the problem, even after going through with the madwifi neibie howto steps. i got stoped at step one doing comand "ifconfig ath0 down" i got:

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig ath0 down
ath0: unknown interface: No such device

I'm muting right now trying to get madwifi and ndiswrapper working

[MikeTbob]

Skip that step, you do not have an old version running. just continue to the next step.

[Thrillhouse]

I believe for that card you have to load the ath_pci module. Try:

#modprobe ath_pci
$iwconfig ath0 essid XXXXXX
$iwconfig ath0 key XXXXX

[Actright484]

yup i did i skipped all the way to the installing but then i got stuck again at loading madwifi module with comand "modprobe ath_pci" and got:

FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.

[Actright484]

I believe for that card you have to load the ath_pci module. Try:

#modprobe ath_pci
$iwconfig ath0 essid XXXXXX
$iwconfig ath0 key XXXXX

umm i'm not sure what the [CODE] is but modprobe is not finding my hardware. looking at this other form another linux newbie vs madwifi - LinuxQuestions.org i think i might be having the same problem but they couldn't fix it either i think

[Papigrande08]

i just installed red hat linux, and i dont kno how to install the kernal for The RTL8185L pc card. it tells me to get the kernal from realtek.com and i have, but i dont kno how to install the kernal or make my card work.....please help a newbie

[Actright484]

There may already be madwifi drivers for you to install through yum if you can get an internet connection. Do as root:
[code]yum update[code]

yum search madwifi

Did you install the kernel development package? Again, if you have connection:

yum install kernel-devel

using this got my kernel updated (this guy knows what hes talking about i don't:P)