[CentOS] Lost my madwifi setup

[Kurt Hansen]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Getting closer, see below...
>
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> 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
> I think I need a:
>
> ifconfig ath0 up
>
> And the wpa_supplicant line should be:
>
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -B -dd -K -D madwifi -i ath0 
> -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> But this is still not working. I think there is something I need to do 
> with wlanconfig?
>
>
I used the directions on this page a couple of days ago:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless

Once I did, I had the wireless working on atheros with wpa2 personal.

Take care,

Kurt Hansen