Michael A. Peters wrote: > 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 Works - but the lights are different. The "Act" and "Link" like use to alternate when looking for a network, and blink together when connected (madwifi) - not the Act light is off and the Link light Link light is solid. But the driver seems to work (i386) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)