On 13/08/09 11:06, Renato Callado Borges wrote:
> Hello Toshaan!
>
>>>> I have some difficulties in installing a wireless adapter on my Toshiba
>>>> laptop which is equipped with a Atheros AR5007eg . I don't know why, but I
>>>> can't install the newest version of madwifi. Any instruction? I have
>>>> installed SL 5.3.
>>>
>>> I believe this CentOS forum post would help:
>>>
>>> https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19968&forum=39&post_id=75582#forumpost75582
>>>
>> would it be easier to just add elrepo and install kmod-ath5k
>> I know you work on the repository and if I remember well, Dag has
>> tested this particular wireless chipset with the kmod package
>> Instructions to install elrepo : http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
>> package details : http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-ath5k
>> you might need to add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf (or
>> is this done automatically)
>> alias wlan0 ath5k
>
> I'm new to SL, old to linux, and I'm trying to help the poster detect his card. From his lspci output, I know his chipset is AR242x, and that this one needs the ath5k module.
>
>> From the linux wireless pages, I know that the ath5k module is in the 2.6.25 and later kernels.
>
> My questions are: which version is the SL 5.3 kernel, and does it have the ath5k precompiled?
>
> In summary, I'm confident loading the ath5k module will solve the problem, but I'm not sure which is 'the SL way' of doing this.
>
> Thanks!
>
You would seem to have 3 choices :
1) keep the current kernel of 2.6.18-128.xxx and manually load the 
madwifi driver (I recommend madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6)
2) keep the current kernel of 2.6.18-128.xxx and install kmod from 
elrepo, which is a "backport" of the new kernel module introduced by 
Redhat for rhel5.4 (and will be for centos5.4 and sl5.4)
3) download dzickus kernel with precompiled ath5k module (I suggest to 
stay under 155, this seems to be the version in the beta, so it might 
end up being the next kernel in 5.4)

I personally think you may want to stay with the official kernel of SL 
and just use the elrepo kmod
I think this would be considered to be the "SL way"


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