I rebuilt my notebook that has the atheros card in it, and forgot to save all of my setup to get it working.
I am using dkms and the madwifi rpms from rpmforge.
My modprobe.conf has a line:
alias wifi0 ath_pci
I can ifconfig wifi0 up
But the command:
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -dd -D madwifi -i wifi0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
fails.
Now some of my old notes mention using ath0 and a line in modprobe.conf of:
alias ath0 ath_pci options ath_pci autocreate=sta
I think there were some iwconfig commands somewhere too. But it is all gone....... sniff.
I hope someone can help? I am going through this list's archives trying to find my old messages too.