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Wireless Internet Anything related to getting wireless set up in Linux. WLAN, WiFi, etc.

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03-05-2008	#1 (permalink)
tau Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1	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 ... TAU

03-07-2008	#2 (permalink)
waterhead Trusted Penguin Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Franklin, Wisconsin Posts: 3,957	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 __________________ Paul Please do not PM me with requests for help. I will not reply.

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