NimBinDobbs

Thank you for your time and help in this matter. There isn't a precompiled madwifi driver there for my kernel, and I am unable to to update my kernel with out the wifi adapter in my pc working. You have done more then I could have hoped for from a forum post. Again, thank you very much, and have a great day.

Sorry I mad a mistake in my last post. I downloaded "madwifi-0.9.4.12-15.rhfc3.x86_64.at.src.rpm" Please note that I am trying to use the x86_64 versions where I may have left that out in the above files listed. Thanks.

I tried to follow your instructions the best I could without knowing much about what I was doing. I ran the command "rpm -qa" and searched thru the output and found no instance of madwifi. I also opened "var/log/messages" and searched thru that looking for an instance of ath and found nothing there either. I believe that I do not have the drivers installed. So I need to install them(?). I downloaded the madwifi source file rpm from ATrpms because I did not see a prebuilt one there for my kernal. The file I got was "madwifi-0.9.4.12-15.rhfc3.at.src.rpm". I followed ATrpms instruction to install which was just to type the command "rpm -Uhv madwifi-0.9.4.12-15.rhfc3.at.src.rpm". This placed a spec file in the directory /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and it also placed a file madwifi.xxxx.tar.bz2 in the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory. I extracted the contents to the same location, and tried the "make" command. This resulted in an error about not being able to do something with elf in x86_64. I also tried to just run the command "rpmbuild --rebuild madwifi-0.9.4.12-15.rhfc3.at.src.rpm" which resulted in this error "error: line 1: Unknown tag: %Kmdl madwifi" I dont know if it helps any, but I am using the orginal kernel that came with the distro cds I downloaded. I think it is 2.6.9.677 or something like that. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Thanks again.

Thank you for the quick reply. I have the v1 with the atheros chipset. Are the MadWiFi drivers included with the FC3 distro? I just did a fresh install and selected to install everything that came on the 4 discs I downloaded, so if it was on those then they should be there? How do I find and activate them if they are there? Sorry for all the questions, but I am a noob to Linux, and just need a little help getting started, then I wish to contribute all I learn back to the forum. Thanks again.

Hello. Just started using Linux for the first time with Fedora Core 3 x86_64. I have a Netgear WG311T PCI adapter, and am trying to get the wireless networking functional with the MadWiFi drivers. I am pretty much stuck at the part of what file do I need to download and from where. THe next part is what do I do with the file once I get it? I have seen much on downloading source drivers, then rebuilding/recompiling them for the target computer, and then installing them. Is this correct, and what are the step by step, detailed procedures to do this? Thank you for any help and support this terrific forum can bring me. If anyone needs anymore info from me, just ask, I will be as quick as I can responding. P.S. - Even though I can't get on the net, or get my nvidia drivers to install properly, I still love learning about Linux!