On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:31 -0500, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
As I continue to read this LUG, I am finding out that you can create
configuration files to work with Atheros-based wireless cards in FC5. I
cannot find my wireless card (a Linksys wpc 55ag) in Nework Manager.
How do you create these configuration files to get these wireless cards
to work and where are they placed? I currently am using FC5. One other
point - and perhaps this is just my opinion: it is totally unacceptable
for an operating system to not even be able to find a wireless card
(which worked perfectly in FC4, I might add) to not be detected, never
mind getting it to work. I understand that FC5 has just been released,
but if you have a major investment in wireless cards, they should be
able to work once you install the proper drivers. In my opinion, this
is a major show stopper which should have been fixed by now, especially
since a new kernel has already been released. Well, enough of my
ranting. Nevertheless, if this problem is not fixed soon, many people
are not going to use FC5 on laptops.
If you are going to rant, be careful where you are pointing the finger.
While you are using a new release of Fedora, you are, perhaps
unwittingly and coincidentally, using a new release of the "unsupported"
madwifi driver, known as madwifi-ng. Under FC4, we were using the old
madwifi code. Again, this code is being packaged by a kind soul over on
livna.org and also by someone at atrpms. The reality of wireless is
that other chipsets that are supported/included in FC are, apparently,
working....
I am just not sure who should get the bugzilla on this. Should it be
reported to Fedora Core - against system-config-network and
NetworkManager; or should it be reported to livna and atrpms to adjust
packaging; or should it be reported to madwifi.org?
As I just pointed out in your earlier thread, I am "getting around" this
using the documented methods of scripting per directions found at
madwifi.org and, on your own machine,
under /usr/share/doc/madwifi-<version>/....
--Rob