[CentOS] What ever happened to the dkms atheros drivers/
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Dec 3 23:09:56 UTC 2008
Agile Aspect wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in
>> quite a while, I again need to run madwifi. So I went looking for the
>> dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them. They use to be on rpmforge,
>> as I recall. dkms is there.
>>
>>
> Not sure what a OQO box is, but I'm running 64 bit Fedora 9
> with kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64 and my AR5700 works fine.
>
This is for the OQOs that have Centos on them. This is interesting to
know for the one that has F10 on it.
> With previous kernels, I had to use madwifi.
Long back I used the kmod-madwifi patched kernel from atrpms, but then
we got a dkms loadable madwifi and no more kernel patches. DKMS is how I
am running my ipw3945 driver on this notebook.
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