could use some help with slackware 10.1 and atheros wifi card

Good business move. . . (Bad political/p. r. move as well as help to preventing virus/worm/spyware/malware infection move on the part of Microsoft & King Billy + his crew there. ) :( * That'd be my opinion on the subject.

Linux Networking 361 This topic was started by dannyjr088, 2005-06-09 19:21

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dannyjr088

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#147041

2005-06-09 21:21

well ive installed slackware like a million times activated the pcmcia option so etho is up but the problem is when im trying to install the madwifi driver i get of cvs. well actually it installs fine from what i can tell because if i use iwconfig ath0 is now visible however i cant connect to any wireless ap. another problem is that when i type ifconfig ath0 up it freezes my computer...this also happens if i try to open dhcp client. ive read some stuff about it being caused by slackware's hotplug feature however i dont have any idea how to fix it. any help would be grateful.

thanks
danny

Check sum Failure while installing NVIDIA drivers in fedora core 4

Using Windows XP as a internet gateway for linux

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danleff

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2005-06-11 01:46

What exact wireless card do you have? Do you know the exact chipset for the card? AR5210, 5211, 5212 or 5213?

I tried madwifi and had no success with it.

...and the kernel source is installed on your installation of Slackware?

Do you have WEP or WPA set on the router?

cr4sh

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2005-08-12 04:08

Do you get any error messages while installing the madwifi drivers?