On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:16:52AM +0000, Tom Crummey wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:08:00PM +0000, Tom Crummey wrote: > >>Lan Barnes wrote: > >>>Madwifi also installed from rpm's. > >>> > >>>madwifi-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4-0.9.6.0-18.rhfc4.at > >>>madwifi-0.9.6.0-18.rhfc4.at > >>> > >>>Here is my error message when I insert the driver: > >>> > >>> > >>Hello Lan, > >> > >>It would be mich easier to download the tarball of the latest release > >>and compile that (instead of the kernel). I've got Fedora Core 4 with > >>the same kernel release as you and I've just downloaded the tarball, > >>unpacked it, typed make, then make install. THen reboot and it all > >>works... > >> > > > >I thought that might be a path but couldn't find a tarball for > >-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4- ... perhaps I didn't look hard enough. > > > >I'm going to go do something physical (I've been bashing my head on this > >for a day and a night) to shake out my head, and then I'll look harder. > >If you have a location to the tarball that worked for you, I'd be > >grateful for the pointer. > > > >TIA, > > > Hello Lan, > > Use the SOURCE tarball and compile it on your system. You'll need the > kernel development RPM as well, but you should have that if you've built > kernels before? It's much simpler than recompiling the kernel which is > what you were proposing..... > > The tarball is at: > > http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng/madwifi-ng-r1453-20060220.tar.gz > > >
OK, following Tom's recommendation, I built madwifi-ng and struggled with various config files until I got to my present state. I'm sending this over the wireless, so obviously there has been much progress. Also, we can rule out HW failure. Here is where I am. When the laptop boots, all three net interfaces apparently initialize. I say three because iwconfig is showing ath0 _and_ wifi0, and the RH network GUI controller shows eth0, eth1 (wireless), and ath0. route -n shows both eth0 and ath0 routed to the network with eth0 on the default route through the firewall/router. To make the wireless card work, I have to: 1. use route del to remove the default route for eth0 2. use the RH GUI network manager (I'm sure I could use an "if-" command if I knew which and the syntax) to close eth0 3. use route add default gw to add a path through the router for ath0 Then I'm on the air, but watch out! -- trying to browse a web site through Firefox drops the link light on the d-link and locks the machine. No problem getting to the same web site using lynx. BTW, all of the config files in /etc/sysconf/networking/devices are set to ONBOOT=no. If I set the ath0 to =yes, the machine locks up on boot. But the interface comes up on anyway. Very puzzling. Almost certainly I have something in the RedHat constellation of scripts misconfigured. Possibly, because of the web site lock up, I also have a deeper problem. But perhaps even that can be corrected by some magic option in the /etc/modprobe.conf. My thanks to Tom and everyone on both lists who have gotten me this far. I think I'm close but not quite there. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 Tcl/Tk Enthusiast -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
