Fedora 6/Netgear WPN311GE/Mad wifi HELP

[tafra7]

Hi All

Linux Newb here. The box has an active ethernet connection but needs to be moved and will have to have a wireless connection in its new location.

I am having problems setting up my netgear WPN311GE on Fedora core 6 using the madwifi drivers.

I have installed madwifi from livna repository using

yum install kmod-madwifi

In Network configuation I now have "Atheros communications, Inc AR5212 802.11abg NIC" listed under hardware but as an ethernet type NOT wireless.

If I try to add a new wireless connection profile I cannot select the Atheros NIC.

I suspect I have not installed something I should have - but really have no idea how to procede from here.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[MikeTbob]

Try from the command line:
lsmod | grep ath
/sbin/ifconfig

[tafra7]

Hi Mike

lsmod | grep ath gives

dm_multipath 21833 0
ath_rate_sample 15744 1
ath_pci 93728 0
wlan 187332 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 195408 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
dm_mod 58253 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

and /sbin/ifconfig gives

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:76:20:F9:B8
inet addr:192.168.2.104 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:76ff:fe20:f9b8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3539 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:315 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:306010 (298.8 KiB) TX bytes:31508 (30.7 KiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x4f00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2612 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2612 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5749600 (5.4 MiB) TX bytes:5749600 (5.4 MiB)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-18-4D-77-AD-06-D8-E1-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.2.121 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4008 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:31
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:432864 (422.7 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:20

Edit: I assigned a static ip address for the wifi via network configuration, hence the 192.168.2.121
Any ideas??

Thanks

[MikeTbob]

See post #17 and see if it helps anything, please post back any errors exactly as they appear.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...tml#post489051

[tafra7]

Hi Mike

Thanks for the reply.

I am away for the next couple of days. Will do as per post 17 when I get back and let you know how it goes. I really appreciate your help.

[tafra7]

Hi all

I'm back and here is what we get

wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta

Gives the error

wlanconfig: ioctl: Input/output error

[tafra7]

Hi

When I try and post the output of "iwconfig" and "iwlist ath0 scan" it tells me I have included 8 images in my post and I am not allowed to do that. This is depiste there being no images!! I assume that somehting in the text of those outputs is recognised as an image or image link. Is there a way around this???

The long and the short of it is that with "iwlist ath0 scan" I get an output listing my wireless access point.

Thanks for the time, much appreciated. As I said a am a real noob and it is possible I am overlooking something very simple!!

[MikeTbob]

Hi

When I try and post the output of "iwconfig" and "iwlist ath0 scan" it tells me I have included 8 images in my post and I am not allowed to do that. This is depiste there being no images!! I assume that somehting in the text of those outputs is recognised as an image or image link. Is there a way around this???

The long and the short of it is that with "iwlist ath0 scan" I get an output listing my wireless access point.

Thanks for the time, much appreciated. As I said a am a real noob and it is possible I am overlooking something very simple!!

I think if you click the quote button, to reply to this msg, further down the page you'll see some options, click on disable smilies in text, that may help your problem but I am not sure.

And WOO HOOO, if you can see your access point, you should be able to connect.
Have you tried using the network tool to create a new connection???
If that doesn't work then try doing it from the command line using this link:
UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo - MadWifi - Trac