[Madwifi-users] success madwifi, rh9, dlink 520G

[Marv W. <ml...@co...>]

initially I could not make any .o files due to timex.h error (
incomplete struct) so I re-installed rh9 )2.4.20-6 and selected the
kernel tools, installed the sharutils rpm, and did "make oldconfig" in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-6 which created the .config file.  make ran
correctly and created all three modules.

here's my output from dmesg:

ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ath_hal: 0.9.5.3 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
wlan: 0.7.1.1 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:09.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for ath0
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:80:c8:16:33:ad
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x80100000, irq=12

using the examples from recent posts ifcfg-ath0 I created the following
file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0:

YPE=Wireless
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ESSID=home
CHANNEL=5
KEY='insert encryption key'
IWCONFIG="ap'insert device #'"

I tried ONBOOT=yes but changed to no; when I first booted rh9 asked to
configure ath0... I should have said leave it alone!  it tried to make
it eth0; it was unable to activate eth0 as none is present, but I was
able to bring up ath0 /sbin/ifup ath0.  during log-in rh complains that
it is unable to connect so I selected ignore and login, then start ath0
manually.