Hi Phil, Thank you for your reply.It's not a good news. If i install my CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in a new PC, and plug an other wireless card(mini-pci card with Atheros AR9223 chiset ) into the mother board. Could i get a proper driver and make it work? Now i have done something for that.I installed nidswrapper using the driver in WinXP. The following message will be helpful: ----------------------------------------------------------------- [root@pighead ~]# lspci |grep AR9 03:01.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) [root@pighead ~]# lspci -n |grep 03:01 03:01.0 0280: 168c:0029 (rev 01) [root@pighead ~]# ndiswrapper -l netathw : driver installed device (168C:0029) present ----------------------------------------------------------------- And i have make the driver i got work partly.It can detect the card and scan the APs. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [root@pighead ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up [root@pighead ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:2B:2B:8E:19:65 inet addr:172.3.0.7 Bcast:172.3.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3471 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:288157 (281.4 KiB) TX bytes:26183 (25.5 KiB) Interrupt:177
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:48:6D:B0:05 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:225 Memory:febf0000-fec00000
[root@pighead ~]# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:300 Mb/s Encryption key:off Power Management max timeout:0us mode:All packets received Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I could get an essid list through "iwlist wlan0 scan" : ----------------------------------------------------------------- wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 06:34:CB:30:19:DC ESSID:"wcp-03" Protocol:IEEE 802.11g Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Quality:0/100 Signal level:-97 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Encryption key:off Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=500 Extra:atim=0 ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- And i got the following error message if i tried to connect an essid in the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready ----------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know how to fix it, can you give some advice.Am i in the wrong way. And i want to known if my kernel(2.6.18-128.el5) is too old to support my wireless card. :-( Any help will be appreciated.
2011/6/11 Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner@nasa.gov
liming wu wrote on 06/07/2011 11:27 PM:
i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed myCentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in VMware.
You would probably have a better chance of getting drivers to work if you were not using a seriously obsolete release. The current and only supported release is 5.6.
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