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kaola_linux

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From: Bacolod City/Philippines

Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 513

How to show and enable wireless devices

Hi, I've reinstalled arch on my Acer Aspire One..During the installation I didn't checked all the packages...Only a few which I use oftenly...Maybe I missed something? Esp. the wireless...:( I've already installed wireless-tools and added ath5k on my rc.conf..

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lorentzc

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From: Romania - Iasi

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 3

Re: How to show and enable wireless devices

On last month i've a lot of issues with wireless minipci card, and i solved the issues using madwifi drivers.
Look for madwifi package, unload ath5k, and do an : #modprobe ath_pci and to show wireless devices: #iwconfig -a

Last edited by lorentzc (2009-02-03 12:36:05)

yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

Re: How to show and enable wireless devices

yep.... setting ath5k  as !ath5k   can be a real help.  just got my card running. it seems that for the atheros chip cards/devices if you use ath5k  (along with the rest of i expect, by itself?) the card shows up with ifconfig  AS   wlan0   and not ath0

something like that though concept to fix is same whatever.

read all the wireless related wiki pages   3 main ones

newer cards may well use  ath5k though  and who know there may be a tip for using ath5k....

Last edited by yvonney (2009-02-05 06:25:11)

XazZ

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-30

Posts: 72

Re: How to show and enable wireless devices

just some side-note (even if the problem is already fixed):
if you use the madwifi driver your interface name is ath0
if you use ath5k or ath9k your interface will be named wlan0

that only applies if you don't mess around with udev (since then you can give your interfaces real funny names... which is not what you want)

yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

Re: How to show and enable wireless devices

I thought ath5k WAS madwifi  so that's very helpful... yes, I noticed that if the 3 modules for madwifi were in the modules line of rc.conf AND the ath5k was there too iwconfig said my interface was wlan0 ... comment out the ath5k and it was ath0 ... I my recall and typing here is accurate.

thank you fo that!
this old phillips pcmcia card only does anything with the 3 from madwifi  the "ath_pci" "hal" and..um, the other one... :--)