<div>Hi Phil,</div>Thank you for your reply.It's not a good news.<div>If i install my CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in a new PC, </div><div>and plug an other wireless card(mini-pci card with Atheros AR9223 chiset ) into the mother board.</div>
<div>Could i get a proper driver and make it work?</div><div>Now i have done something for that.I installed nidswrapper using the driver in WinXP.</div><div>The following message will be helpful:</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div>
<div><div>[root@pighead ~]# lspci |grep AR9</div><div>03:01.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)</div></div><div><div>[root@pighead ~]# lspci -n |grep 03:01</div><div>
03:01.0 0280: 168c:0029 (rev 01)</div></div><div><div>[root@pighead ~]# ndiswrapper -l</div><div>netathw : driver installed</div><div> device (168C:0029) present</div></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div>
<div><div></div></div><div>And i have make the driver i got work partly.It can detect the card and scan the APs.</div><div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div></div></div>
</div><div><div><div>[root@pighead ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up</div><div>[root@pighead ~]# ifconfig</div><div>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:2B:2B:8E:19:65</div><div> inet addr:172.3.0.7 Bcast:172.3.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0</div>
<div> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1</div><div> RX packets:3471 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0</div><div> TX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0</div><div>
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000</div><div> RX bytes:288157 (281.4 KiB) TX bytes:26183 (25.5 KiB)</div><div> Interrupt:177</div><div><br></div><div>lo Link encap:Local Loopback</div><div> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0</div>
<div> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1</div><div> RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0</div><div> TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0</div><div> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0</div>
<div> RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)</div><div><br></div><div>wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:48:6D:B0:05</div><div> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1</div><div> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0</div>
<div> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0</div><div> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000</div><div> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)</div><div> Interrupt:225 Memory:febf0000-fec00000</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><div>[root@pighead ~]# iwconfig wlan0</div><div>wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any</div><div> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated</div><div> Bit Rate:300 Mb/s</div>
<div> Encryption key:off</div><div> Power Management max timeout:0us mode:All packets received</div><div> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0</div><div> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0</div>
<div> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0</div></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>I could get an essid list through "iwlist wlan0 scan" :</div>
<div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>wlan0 Scan completed :</div><div><div> Cell 01 - Address: 06:34:CB:30:19:DC</div><div> ESSID:"wcp-03"</div>
<div> Protocol:IEEE 802.11g</div><div> Mode:Managed</div><div> Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)</div><div> Quality:0/100 Signal level:-97 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm</div>
<div> Encryption key:off</div><div> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s</div><div> 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s</div><div> 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s</div>
<div> Extra:bcn_int=500</div><div> Extra:atim=0</div></div><div>...</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">
And i got the following error message if i tried to connect an essid in the list.</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">I don't know how to fix it, can you give some advice.Am i in the wrong way.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">And i want to known if my kernel(2.6.18-128.el5) is too old to support my</div><div class="gmail_quote">wireless card. :-(</div><div class="gmail_quote">Any help will be appreciated.</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/11 Phil Schaffner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Philip.R.Schaffner@nasa.gov">Philip.R.Schaffner@nasa.gov</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
liming wu wrote on 06/07/2011 11:27 PM:<br>
<div class="im">> i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my<br>
> CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in VMware.<br>
<br>
</div>You would probably have a better chance of getting drivers to work if<br>
you were not using a seriously obsolete release. The current and only<br>
supported release is 5.6.<br>
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Phil<br>
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