On Mon, 25 May 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: > 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) Great, you have the same one as I have. Could you send your remarks to the Red Hat bug-report so that the developers can follow-up on this. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499999 Thanks for helping all Atheros users :) -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]