On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 20:52 -0400, Bill Johnson wrote:
OK... I'm tearing my hair out on this one. I recently upgraded
from
Fedora Core 1 (actually, it was a clean install) to Fedora Core 3. I
use a Netgear HA501 (80211.A) wireless card, which I had working under
Core 1. It took me weeks at that time, as I recall, and was easily the
closest I've come to giving up on Linux. Now, I'm in the same boat.
I've spent hours searching for every error message on Google, tried to
use the #MADWIFI irc channel (got no response), and still cannot get it
to work.
SO... is there anybody on this group who has this working with Fedora
Core 3, and would be willing to correspond with me to get it working?
If I plug my mepis CD in, the thing works perfectly. But for some
reason, it is stumping me with FC3.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Bill J.
I had some difficult making Madwifi on Fedora Core 3 using WPA-PSK, but I
succeed in the end. This what I did:
Hardware: D-link wireless router DI-624 and miniPCI DWL-G650 on my notebook
(also successful using a USB DWL-G122)
Useful web pages:
FAQ >
http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-9.htm
FC3 setup >
http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=599
I got it working first with USB DWL-G122 using ndiswrapper and
wpa_supplicant. So I knew I was doing it right with the router and that
wpa_supplicant was working right. I didn't like this solution because on
needs to run a custom kernel to increase stack size to 16k. ifup/ifdown wlan0
worked no problem and therefore neat also.
This was not true for the Madwifi module as described at the end of
http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=599. After lots of searching what worked for me
was the following script:
#!/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin/
#Secure:
#WPA-PSK Works!
modprobe ath_pci
ifconfig ath0 up
#iwlist ath0 scan
wpa_supplicant -Bw -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dmadwifi
dhclient
iwconfig ath0 rate 54M
#iwconfig
#ifconfig
#NOTE: if you use ifup WPA-PSK doesn't work for this driver!
#Also you might need to unplug it to get it to load ath0 properly
I don't understand why ifup doesn't work, and therefore neat, like on the
other wireless card but the above script works for me.
To take the wireless connection down I have the following script:
#!/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
#Shutting Down:
ifdown ath0
modprobe -r ath_pci
killall -s SIGUSR1 wpa_supplicant
killall -s SIGUSR1 dhclient
Some of the code might be redundant.
regards
al