Hello,
I just installed Centos 5.2 on my wife's IBM thinkpad T41 with Atheros wireless.
It looks like I need to install madwifi to get the wireless to work. Our home wireless network uses WPA2
I found the EL5 rpms at atrpms, but there is no madwifi-kmdl rpms for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.
So, to get the wireless working on my home network, what's the shortest path from here? Install madwifi from source (was part the way there but discovered the rpms when I looked for the wpa_supplicant stuff)? Or, can I use one of the other madwifi-kmdl rpms? Or, go back to an earlier kernel?
Thanks for your help!
Take care,
Kurt Hansen
Any of these approaches will work. There is a bug in madwifi (or at least a difference in opinion on RH kernels) as per http://madwifi.org/ticket/1956 As documented there this requires a trivial source code change in order to get the modules to compile. If your system already attempts to compile the module at boot time you only need to make the change in the code found under /usr/src and all should be well. If not, compile it from madwifi source or an atrpms source rpm as per your preference.
Regards Hendrik
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 23:46 -0400, Kurt Hansen wrote:
Hello,
I just installed Centos 5.2 on my wife's IBM thinkpad T41 with Atheros wireless.
It looks like I need to install madwifi to get the wireless to work. Our home wireless network uses WPA2
I found the EL5 rpms at atrpms, but there is no madwifi-kmdl rpms for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.
So, to get the wireless working on my home network, what's the shortest path from here? Install madwifi from source (was part the way there but discovered the rpms when I looked for the wpa_supplicant stuff)? Or, can I use one of the other madwifi-kmdl rpms? Or, go back to an earlier kernel?
Thanks for your help!
Take care,
Kurt Hansen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Kurt Hansen wrote:
I just installed Centos 5.2 on my wife's IBM thinkpad T41 with Atheros wireless.
It looks like I need to install madwifi to get the wireless to work. Our home wireless network uses WPA2
I found the EL5 rpms at atrpms, but there is no madwifi-kmdl rpms for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.
So, to get the wireless working on my home network, what's the shortest path from here? Install madwifi from source (was part the way there but discovered the rpms when I looked for the wpa_supplicant stuff)? Or, can I use one of the other madwifi-kmdl rpms? Or, go back to an earlier kernel?
If you actually looked at the CentOS wiki, you would have found this when searching for madwifi:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless
which should help. If it doesn't, we'd be pleased to know about it.
Thanks,
Dag Wieers wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Kurt Hansen wrote:
I just installed Centos 5.2 on my wife's IBM thinkpad T41 with Atheros wireless.
It looks like I need to install madwifi to get the wireless to work. Our home wireless network uses WPA2
I found the EL5 rpms at atrpms, but there is no madwifi-kmdl rpms for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.
So, to get the wireless working on my home network, what's the shortest path from here? Install madwifi from source (was part the way there but discovered the rpms when I looked for the wpa_supplicant stuff)? Or, can I use one of the other madwifi-kmdl rpms? Or, go back to an earlier kernel?
If you actually looked at the CentOS wiki, you would have found this when searching for madwifi:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wirelesswhich should help. If it doesn't, we'd be pleased to know about it.
Following the instructions at that page worked! Just had to reboot at the end, login and the machine was connected. Thanks!
I'll be sure to look at the Wiki first from now on. I had serched the mailing list, the madwifi docs, madwifi wiki, and a couple of rpm repositories before making the request on the list -- I figured there must be something I was missing.
Take care,
Kurt Hansen
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Kurt Hansen wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Kurt Hansen wrote:
I just installed Centos 5.2 on my wife's IBM thinkpad T41 with Atheros wireless.
It looks like I need to install madwifi to get the wireless to work. Our home wireless network uses WPA2
I found the EL5 rpms at atrpms, but there is no madwifi-kmdl rpms for kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.
So, to get the wireless working on my home network, what's the shortest path from here? Install madwifi from source (was part the way there but discovered the rpms when I looked for the wpa_supplicant stuff)? Or, can I use one of the other madwifi-kmdl rpms? Or, go back to an earlier kernel?
If you actually looked at the CentOS wiki, you would have found this when searching for madwifi:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wirelesswhich should help. If it doesn't, we'd be pleased to know about it.
Following the instructions at that page worked! Just had to reboot at the end, login and the machine was connected. Thanks!
I'll be sure to look at the Wiki first from now on. I had serched the mailing list, the madwifi docs, madwifi wiki, and a couple of rpm repositories before making the request on the list -- I figured there must be something I was missing.
I am glad. In essence the reboot is not necessary.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Kurt Hansen khansen@charityweb.net wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
If you actually looked at the CentOS wiki, you would have found this when searching for madwifi:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless
which should help. If it doesn't, we'd be pleased to know about it.
Following the instructions at that page worked! Just had to reboot at the end, login and the machine was connected. Thanks!
I'll be sure to look at the Wiki first from now on. I had serched the mailing list, the madwifi docs, madwifi wiki, and a couple of rpm repositories before making the request on the list -- I figured there must be something I was missing.
Well... you could have searched the CentOS forums. :-) A simple search would have found a thread like this one:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15003&forum=4...
Akemi
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