Fedora 7 won't recognize my wireless card

[Dapper Dan]

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.

When you tried to compile the madwifi driver, are you still running into the same error about build not being linked? If so, let's see the results of:

ls /usr/src/kernels

and

ls /lib/modules

Also, while you're at it...

uname -a

[Actright484]

no i got all that fixed from what you told me to do thanks for it but "modprobe ath_pci" is giving me:
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe ath_pci
FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.

thats my main problem now

[Actright484]

I think i might have found out what my problem is after searching for ath_pci:

[root@localhost modules]# cd /lib/modules
[root@localhost modules]# find . -type f -name ath_pci
[root@localhost modules]#

you can see nothing came up so i must have some kind of driver problem? if anyone can see whats going on here please inlighten me. Thanks

[Dapper Dan]

Chances are your system does not yet know it is installed until it does and update. Let's do that...

updatedb

When it finishes...

locate ath_pci

I'm unclear as to whether you compiled the driver or simply installed it with yum. If with yum, it should be there. If you compiled it and it's not there, did you do:

/sbin/depmod -a

...after building the driver and before doing modprobe? Seems that part often gets left out. That would explain why you are getting the error when trying to modprobe.

[Actright484]

i have not bin installing from yum because it has not bin working i've bin installing from the source but i believe that is just installing into my desktop madwifi-0.9.3.2 source file (whats up with that?) heres what it looks like:

[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.3.2]# make
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... ok.
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-2931.fc7xen/build SUBDIRS=/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.4-65.fc7-x86_64'
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 13 modules
CC /root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/ath_pci.mod.o
LD [M] /root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/ath_pci.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.4-65.fc7-x86_64'
make -C ./tools all || exit 1
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/tools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/tools'
[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.3.2]# make install
sh scripts/find-madwifi-modules.sh 2.6.22.4-65.fc7

WARNING:
It seems that there are modules left from previous MadWifi installations.
If you are unistalling the MadWifi modules please press "r" to remove them.
If you are installing new MadWifi modules, you should consider removing those
already installed, or else you may experience problems during operation.
Remove old modules?

[l]ist, [r]emove, [i]gnore or e[x]it (l,r,i,[x]) ?
i
for i in ./ath ./ath_hal ./ath_rate ./net80211; do \
make -C $i install || exit 1; \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
install ath_pci.ko //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath'
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_hal'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
install ath_hal.ko //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_hal'
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_rate'
for i in amrr/ onoe/ sample/; do \
make -C $i install || exit 1; \
done
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_rate/amrr'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
install ath_rate_amrr.ko //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_rate/amrr'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_rate/onoe'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
install ath_rate_onoe.ko //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_rate/onoe'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_rate/sample'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
install ath_rate_sample.ko //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_rate/sample'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath_rate'
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/net80211'
test -d //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net || mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net
for i in wlan.o wlan_wep.o wlan_tkip.o wlan_ccmp.o wlan_acl.o wlan_xauth.o wlan_scan_sta.o wlan_scan_ap.o; do \
f=`basename $i .o`; \
install $f.ko //lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net; \
done
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/net80211'
(export KMODPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net; /sbin/depmod -ae 2.6.22.4-65.fc7)
make -C ./tools install || exit 1
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/tools'
install -d /usr/local/bin
for i in athstats 80211stats athkey athchans athctrl athdebug 80211debug wlanconfig; do \
install $i /usr/local/bin/$i; \
strip /usr/local/bin/$i; \
done
install -d /usr/local/man/man8
install -m 0644 man/*.8 /usr/local/man/man8
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/tools'

[Actright484]

when i trired to do yum install the first few times i just got a message like nothing to do or something but this time i got this:

[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.3.2]# yum install madwifi
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 4.7 MB 04:55
updates 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
Nothing to do

you can see theres still noting to do (theres alot to do!) when i searched for "modprobe ath_pci" this came up:
[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.3.2]# locate ath_pci
/lib/modules/2.6.22.4-65.fc7/net/ath_pci.ko
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/.tmp_versions/ath_pci.mod
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/.ath_pci.ko.cmd
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/.ath_pci.mod.o.cmd
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/.ath_pci.o.cmd
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/.if_ath_pci.o.cmd
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/ath_pci.ko
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/ath_pci.mod.c
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/ath_pci.mod.o
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/ath_pci.o
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/if_ath_pci.c
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/if_ath_pci.h
/root/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.3.2/ath/if_ath_pci.o

i believe this means that in fact i have bin stalling to the desktop i don't know how that happened or how to change it but where do i go from here i'm still looking around for other i ideas as well. Thanks for the help y'all

[Dapper Dan]

i believe this means that in fact i have bin stalling to the desktop i don't know how that happened or how to change it but where do i go from here i'm still looking around for other i ideas as well. Thanks for the help y'all

Compile again, this time answer "r" when it asks if you want to remove previous installs, otherwise there might be a conflict between the yum install and what you've compiled. After you do make and make install, and there are no errors... do:

/sbin/depmod -a

Then:

/sbin/modprobe ath_pci

If there are no errors, do:

/sbin/lsmod

And see if you see it listed. If it is, go:

/sbin/ifconfig

...and see if ath0 is listed there. If you got this far, all is well and you can configure your device via:

system-config-network

[Actright484]

i do remove the old modules or w/e it says and i still get the same yum install problem saying theres nothing to do. by the way thanks for the quick response time it really makes this alot less frustrating

[Dapper Dan]

If you are compiling, go ahead and remove the yum repository version of madwifi via yum if you've read there are problems there...

yum remove (whatever the package was called)

Then compile the madwifi driver.

[Actright484]

ok i did yum remove:
[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.3.2]# yum remove madwifi
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: madwifi
No Packages marked for removal

i'm all out of ideas but from what i can get theres a problem loading the drivers i go to /lib/modules/2.6.22.4-64.fc7/net and there seems to be some kind of wireless files like they say wlan and ath i don't know for sure cuz i don't know what they should look like anyone know whats wrong again the problem is this:

[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.3.2]# modprobe ath_pci
FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.

HELP PLEASE