Patrick Jacques wrote:
> Purchase new hardware?? That's horrible advice for a RHCE in training,
> especially when the chipset has been supported for years (madwifi).
> It's always easy to work around the problem instead of solving it, but
> the knowledge gained from the experience of tackling the problem head on
> is a gift that keeps giving.
>
> That being said, have you tried:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless#head-0f9ce16affec7ef03a42924029b768a416f8b825
>
>
> After you do a 'modprobe ath5k' what is the tail end of the output of
> the 'dmesg' command? This will tell you if the kernel is loading the
> module and if it's recognizing your wireless card. You can also use the
> 'iwconfig' command to see if the wireless extensions are loading, what
> their settings are(AP, channel, etc), as well as manually change these
> settings. You'll probably want to configure the card using
> NetworkManager though:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/NetworkManager
>
> To load the ath5k module at boot, follow:
>
> http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_enterprise_linux_sysadmin_guide/s1-kernel-modules-persistant.html
>
> You've already ruled out hardware failure cause it works under ubuntu
> (which is running a more recent kernel). If the above doesn't help,
> what kernel (uname -r) and version of centos (cat /etc/issue) are you
> running? It mentions a bug in the ath5k driver for the 2.6.18-128
> kernel, 2.6.18-141 seems to fix it.
>
>
> Patrick
>
Nice post, Patrick. I'm guessing that the last bit about the kernel
version is right on target. The latest kernel for COS5 appears to be
2.6.18-128 though. Building a kernel from source seems to me to be a
good excercise for a RHCE in training though. ;)
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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