What's the easiest path to having my Atheros wireless cards supported, particularly in C5?
In the past, I've chosen to download source and build my own, but that's become a little tiresome.
At one point, OpenSUSE was the easy option, but since 10.1 it's dropped madwifi.
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John Summerfield wrote:
In the past, I've chosen to download source and build my own, but that's become a little tiresome.
Have you tried the Madwifi RPMS off atrpms?
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
My Atheros chipset Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC.
I can't answer your C5 question, but all C4.x has worked great with my card. Perhaps your card is newer though.
Regards, Max
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Max Hetrick wrote:
I can't answer your C5 question, but all C4.x has worked great with my card. Perhaps your card is newer though.
I take that back! They have the Madwifi RPMs spun up for C5 already.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/madwifi/
Max Hetrick wrote:
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Max Hetrick wrote:
I can't answer your C5 question, but all C4.x has worked great with my card. Perhaps your card is newer though.
I take that back! They have the Madwifi RPMs spun up for C5 already.
I'll give it a shot when my downloads finish.
I was hoping the answer was "they're in one of the addon Centos repos."
Max Hetrick wrote:
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Max Hetrick wrote:
I can't answer your C5 question, but all C4.x has worked great with my card. Perhaps your card is newer though.
I take that back! They have the Madwifi RPMs spun up for C5 already.
I go directly to: http://dl.atrpms.net/sl4-i386/atrpms/
the madwifi are in the stable directory and the wpa_supplicant is in the testing directory.
and there is a http://dl.atrpms.net/sl5-i386/atrpms/ directory structure as well.
Max Hetrick wrote:
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John Summerfield wrote:
In the past, I've chosen to download source and build my own, but that's become a little tiresome.
Have you tried the Madwifi RPMS off atrpms?
When I got my Thinkpad I tried several distros and those (matching) rpms, where I could find them.
I got to the last choice before I had something that worked. I have a brace of EL4.92/5 rpms here((.
My Atheros chipset Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC.
I can't answer your C5 question, but all C4.x has worked great with my card. Perhaps your card is newer though.
I actually have two:-) The Acer, with OpenSUSE 10.0 gave 32. or so mbytes/sec, the Thinkpad with 10.2 and two or less on the same network.
The Thinkpad's not new, I got it at auction.
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John Summerfield wrote:
I actually have two:-) The Acer, with OpenSUSE 10.0 gave 32. or so mbytes/sec, the Thinkpad with 10.2 and two or less on the same network.
The Thinkpad's not new, I got it at auction.
John,
The RPMs that I have loaded are as follows in case you need them for reference:
madwifi-0.9.3-33_r2088.el4.at madwifi-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL-0.9.3-33_r2088.el4.at madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL-0.9.3-33_r2088.el4.at
The only glitch I've ever encountered is after you load the new RPMs, you then reboot for the system to see the new hardware. Sometimes the system tries to create the new wireless device as wifi0 which my laptop doesn't like, in face it'll sometimes hang while trying to bring up the network device.
If that happens, I boot into single user mode and set it to not start at boot time, then move on to the next step.
I have to then go into the network config and delete this device, then create a new ath0 device and it works great.
Again, this doesn't always happen.
I have an older ThinkPad R40, so just let me know if you need any hardware specs, config files, or such to compare/troubleshoot yours.
Good luck.
Max
Max Hetrick wrote:
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John Summerfield wrote:
I actually have two:-) The Acer, with OpenSUSE 10.0 gave 32. or so mbytes/sec, the Thinkpad with 10.2 and two or less on the same network.
The Thinkpad's not new, I got it at auction.
John,
The RPMs that I have loaded are as follows in case you need them for reference:
madwifi-0.9.3-33_r2088.el4.at madwifi-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL-0.9.3-33_r2088.el4.at madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL-0.9.3-33_r2088.el4.at
The only glitch I've ever encountered is after you load the new RPMs, you then reboot for the system to see the new hardware. Sometimes the system tries to create the new wireless device as wifi0 which my laptop doesn't like, in face it'll sometimes hang while trying to bring up the network device.
If that happens, I boot into single user mode and set it to not start at boot time, then move on to the next step.
I have to then go into the network config and delete this device, then create a new ath0 device and it works great.
Again, this doesn't always happen.
I have an older ThinkPad R40, so just let me know if you need any hardware specs, config files, or such to compare/troubleshoot yours.
Mine's a TP R40 2722-gdm. From its specs, I think it's one of the better R40s.
It will be another day or so before the download of the beta finishes then there's finding the time....
To move the topic a little, do you have any problems with the DVD drive in the Ultrabay? Mine played up with every distro I tried, Xubuntu 6.10, FC6, RHEL5b2, and does with OpenSUSE 10.2. Missing interrupts, "the drive is confused..."
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John Summerfield wrote:
To move the topic a little, do you have any problems with the DVD drive in the Ultrabay? Mine played up with every distro I tried, Xubuntu 6.10, FC6, RHEL5b2, and does with OpenSUSE 10.2. Missing interrupts, "the drive is confused..."
Mine's a 2682-48U (Celeron model).
Nope, I've never had any issues that I noticed. I play movies on it with no problem, and never have any issues burning, other than it only burns at 12x, so it's slower than my desktop burner.
Everything else has been really reliable as well. I don't have the original hard drive in it. I replaced it with a 40G Hitachi Travelstar E7K60 7200RPM 8M cache.
The fan died once, and the little rubber things wore out on the built in mouse (whatever you call it). I think they call it the nav panel or something. Mine's still under warranty though, and so the parts were replaced for free.
I actually bought mine off E-Bay almost 2 years ago from an authorized reseller. It was a refurb, but had 2 years warranty left. I then bought an extra year.
Max
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