I tried that at first I believe. I think I am going to reload and give it a
fresh start, see if the ath5k driver works and then go from there.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Dennis Kibbe <
dennisk@sahuaro.us> wrote:
>
> > I have a lenovo/IBM thinkpad Z60T that I am unable to set up wireless
> > under
> > Centos. I have tried several online howtos, and so far no luck.
> >
> > The Thinkpad wireless info is as follows:
> >
> > 0000:13:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
> > 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
> >
> > At this point I wonder if I have tried too many things and changed to
> > many drivers around. I would be open to reinstalling centos if needed.
> >
> > Should I come into the next install fest, or does someone have a howto
> > that they have actually had work????
> >
> > It does work under ubuntu 9.04, but I would like to stay with centos
> > for now as it is my learning system right now for RHCE.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steve Phariss
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Are you using the Atheros ath5k driver that ships with CentOS?
>
> modprobe ath5k
>
> Centos 5.x doesn't have NetworkManager running by default you can start it
> with System/Administration/Services and check that bok so it starts on
> reboot. It *should* show up as your wifi device.
>
> dennisk
>
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