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/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. I am glad. In essence the reboot is not necessary. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]