[nicevision2020]

Hello Linux Gurus

I am new to linux. I installed fedora rc3. I am trying to configure Netgear wg311v2 card in my computer. Its working fine in windows xp. yesterday i installed madifi driver. No error. But i dont know where to start to configure. When i tried to use network setting but i didnt see netgear there. Can i choose any card? Please tell me how to configure netgear in fedora rc3. Greatly appreciated

Is it manual setup or i can use network setting through fedora system setup.

thanks in advance

[martouf]

Hmm, let's see... your Netgear WG311 is a PCI-connected atheros chipset device.

If you've successfully built and installed the latest madwifi drivers
and have restarted your system, then you should now see in /var/log/messages
(or via 'dmesg') the "ath_hal", "wlan" and "ath_pci" drivers have loaded.

After a restart, does 'iwconfig' show an interface named "ath0" ?

[nicevision2020]

i dont see anything like that. Thanks. How can i check whether the driver installed successfuly.

here is the command i used

rpmbuild --rebuild madXXXXxxxxxx.rpm

[danleff]

As martouf suggested, go into a terminal window and login as root user.

Type in /sbin/iwconfig, hit the enter key and see if an entry comes up showing ath0, with some information. Or does it say;

ath0...no wireless connection?

You may only need to run iwconfig at the terminal..I can't remember which works in Fedora.

[nicevision2020]

Hi Here is the response.

#iwconfig

lo no wireless extension
eth0 no wireless extension
sit0 no wireless extension

no error when i used to build madwifi dirver

rpmbuild --rebuild madwifi-0.0.20050125-1.src.rpm

what i am doing wrong.

[danleff]

Originally posted by nicevision2020:

Quote:

Hi Here is the response.

#iwconfig

lo no wireless extension
eth0 no wireless extension
sit0 no wireless extension

no error when i used to build madwifi dirver

rpmbuild --rebuild madwifi-0.0.20050125-1.src.rpm

what i am doing wrong.

martouf can answer this more correctly, but I don't think that you should be using the source rpm (src.rpm) of madwifi. It looks like the driver is not getting loaded and that the rpm is not setting up the basic needed config files and changes to modprobe.conf, that tells the system to load the module (driver) at boot.

Navigate to /etc/modprobe.conf open it and see if:

"alias ath0 ath_pci"

Is on the list of commands to set up the module.

Then look and see if there is a file called ifcfg-ath0 in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory.

I won't hijack the answering the post from martouf, but this will give him more information to work on.

[martouf]

danleff: s'ok .. step right in..

'rpmbuild' just builds the rpm package from the sources which can then in turn
be installed with 'rpm -ip'..

0. I think you'll find a freshly built madwifi rpm file in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS

nicevision, sorry, but you're confused. :x

1. try 'rpm -qa | grep madwi' to see if you already have the madwifi package
installed.
In some distros, the madwifi drivers are just rolled into the kernel package
so for those you must check the kernel modules for 'ath_hal' and 'ath_pci'.
-> "find /lib/modules -name \*ath\*" (you'll need the backslashes)

2. you need to check "/var/log/messages" or 'dmesg' for an indication the
madwifi drivers appropriate for your wireless card are loading.

-> "grep ath /var/log/messages" or "dmesg | grep ath"
-> "grep wlan /var/log/messages" or "dmesg | grep wlan"

3. if the drivers are loaded, then you should find an "ath0" interface
listed with 'iwconfig'. if they aren't loaded, you may need to 'modprobe ath_pci'
and go back to Step 2.

[nicevision2020]

Thanks for all your help..

Here is my reply..

1. try 'rpm -qa | grep madwi' to see if you already have the madwifi package
installed.
In some distros, the madwifi drivers are just rolled into the kernel package
so for those you must check the kernel modules for 'ath_hal' and 'ath_pci'.
-> "find /lib/modules -name \*ath\*" (you'll need the backslashes)

Ans: ./net/ath_hal.ko
./net/ath_pci.ko

2. you need to check "/var/log/messages" or 'dmesg' for an indication the
madwifi drivers appropriate for your wireless card are loading.

-> "grep ath /var/log/messages" or "dmesg | grep ath"
-> "grep wlan /var/log/messages" or "dmesg | grep wlan"

Ans: ath_hal: XXXXX
ath_hal:0.9.XXX
ath_rate_once:1.0
ath_pci: XXX
wlan: 0.8XXXX

3. if the drivers are loaded, then you should find an "ath0" interface
listed with 'iwconfig'. if they aren't loaded, you may need to 'modprobe ath_pci'
and go back to Step 2.

Ans: no ath0 when i did iwconfig
#modprobe ath_pci
after this no result

//
No entry in modprobe.conf
No ifcfg-ath0 in network-scripts

rpm -qa | grep madwi
ans : madwifi-0.0XXXXX
madwifi_module-0.0XXXXXX

Anything else i have to do.
Greatly appreciate all your help.

How do i check wireless card working?
I have Network card also eth0. But the cable is not connected. Is that cause problem?

[drmagoo]

"WG311v1 is Atheros chipset (can use MADwifi drivers), WG311v2 uses TI ACX111 chipset (must use drivers from acx100.sourceforge.net)" = from another thread this site. I used the how-to from "Craig's ACX100/111 Guide for Linux" located here http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php which is recommended by the acx100 sourceforge page. I was a total noob, no command line experience for 10+ years and it was easy. Using wg311v2 and the acx100 drivers to type this.


Good luck.

magoo

[danleff]

Yep! drmagoo seems to be correct. I just checked the ndiswrapper page on supported adapters and that is what I find.

[martouf]

hmm.. drmagoo: yes, the acx100 project folks document the WG311v2 Rev A1 as using
the ACX111 chipset.

Wow, someone please email bruce@linux-wlan.com with the updated Netgear WG311 info!
The great resource http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
lists only "WG311" (no "v1" and no "v2" ).

nicevision2020: are you going to need WEP support?

If so, then the ACX100 driver does not yet support WEP on the ACX111 chipset.
If you need WEP or WPA, then you'll have to use ndiswrapper for now.

[nicevision2020]

Its working. Greatly appreciated all your help. Thanks Thanks

[nicevision2020]

Thanks drmagoo. Greatly appreciate your help. The wirless card start working but i can't use WEP with acx100 driver. I need WEP because I setup my router with WEP. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks to all help me to fix it.