Dag Wieers wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, sumit agarwal wrote: > >> i installed madwifi on 5.2 x64 but it dosent seem to be working >> any clues? > > For people with madwifi issues or looking for a better solution to Atheros > support, the elrepo repository is tesing new backported ath5k drivers that > Red Hat is preparing for RHEL 5.4. We think we have fixed all known > issues, but to help us with improved Atheros support in CentOS 5.4 we need > to make sure Red Hat ships something that works across all boards. > > So if you have an Atheros chipset and want to help test the newer ath5k > driver, go to: > > http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/i386/RPMS/ > or http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/x86_64/RPMS/ > > and try the kmod-ath5k and kmod-mac80211 packages for your kernel. (First > remove the madwifi driver though, to make sure there is no interference a > reboot may help too). > I'll test it on my i386 for sure. Mine is AT&T Plug-n-share I also have a PCI version I could test on my x86_64 though I'd have to find where I put it (I ran ethernet into my home office years ago) if x86_64 really isn't much untested. Is this a non tainting driver?