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.