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!

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