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Cannot activate Atheros 5006BG on fedora 8
Hi,

I installed fedora live 8 on my new FUJITSU SIEMENS laptop. I see that the atheros wireless mini-pci driver is supported and recognized. I'm trying to activate the wlan0 interface and get error messages. (action not supported)
I'm a new user to the linux system so I have trouble to find my way to solve this issue.
any help will be appreciated ...

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Your wireless most likely uses the madwifi driver. More info can be found at these sites:
madwifi - Linux Wireless
About/TheProject - madwifi.org - Trac

The driver module that it uses is call ath_pci. You can run this command to see if it is loaded.
Code:
/sbin/lsmod
It should create an ath0 network connection. You can check for it with this command.
Code:
/sbin/iwconfig
Your system may have relabeled it wlan0.

You also look for error messages about the wireless from the boot process with this command.
Code:
dmesg
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