[CentOS] madwifi not working for 5.2 x64

Mon May 25 10:38:50 UTC 2009
Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org>

On Mon, 25 May 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> Dag Wieers wrote:
>>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, sumit agarwal wrote:
>>>
>>>> i installed madwifi on 5.2 x64 but it dosent seem to be working
>>>> any clues?
>>> For people with madwifi issues or looking for a better solution to Atheros
>>> support, the elrepo repository is tesing new backported ath5k drivers that
>>> Red Hat is preparing for RHEL 5.4. We think we have fixed all known
>>> issues, but to help us with improved Atheros support in CentOS 5.4 we need
>>> to make sure Red Hat ships something that works across all boards.
>>>
>>> So if you have an Atheros chipset and want to help test the newer ath5k
>>> driver, go to:
>>>
>>>      http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/i386/RPMS/
>>> or  http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/x86_64/RPMS/
>>>
>>> and try the kmod-ath5k and kmod-mac80211 packages for your kernel. (First
>>> remove the madwifi driver though, to make sure there is no interference a
>>> reboot may help too).
>>>
>>
>> I'll test it on my i386 for sure.
>> Mine is AT&T Plug-n-share
>
> Works - but the lights are different.
> The "Act" and "Link" like use to alternate when looking for a network,
> and blink together when connected (madwifi) - not the Act light is off
> and the Link light Link light is solid.
>
> But the driver seems to work (i386)
>
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros
> AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Great, you have the same one as I have. Could you send your remarks to the 
Red Hat bug-report so that the developers can follow-up on this.

     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499999

Thanks for helping all Atheros users :)
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