By the way, have you tried the madwifi driver from Scientific Linux?

madwifi-0.9.3.1-10.sl4
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL-0.9.3.1-10.sl4
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL-0.9.3.1-10.sl4


Urs



Ken Teh wrote:
> I thought I'd ask before looking further into what happened. The symptom 
> is this:  I upgrade madwifi from atrpms after the recent kernel upgrade 
> in SL4x.  Now, the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network scripts hangs spewing the 
> following message (doing this from memory so it may not be exact)
> 
> cannot change name ath0 to devXXXX:  File exists
> 
> where XXXX is some random number.  Each spew is a different number.  The 
>  following are true:
> 
> (1) To get init.d/network to complete during bootup, I simply remove 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wifi0.
> 
> (2) madwifi works fine if I activate it via 'ifup wifi0'
> 
> (3) All my network devices are set to ONBOOT=no (It's my laptop).  The 
> message comes from init.d/network which is enabled to activate the lo 
> device.  The 'cannot change name' message comes from the
> 
>     is_available
> 
> function which is found in the 'start' case.  is_available is loaded from
> 
>     /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions
> 
> Actually, the problem comes from the
> 
>     rename_device
> 
> function (found in the same functions script) which is called by 
> is_available.
> 
> I'm not keen to know the whys and wherefores so if anyone has a quick 
> solution, I'd be much obliged.  But, if not, some background as to what 
> these functions do might help me unravel what's going on and how to fix it.
> 
> Ken