I did have a blog entry about installing linux ob my laptop. Now fedora core 4 is released and there were some issues with my last installation. Therefore I had to do it again. After reading my own post i did not find it very intuitive. Therefore I make another post with only the commands that I used to get wireless to work.

# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi

# yum install sharutils
# export COPTS="$COPTS -DSOFTLED"
# make
# make install

Create the following file:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0

# Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC
DEVICE=ath0
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
ESSID=
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto

Then add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:

alias ath0 ath_pci

Now open the network settings:
Desktop > System settings > Network

Edit the wireless device and connect to your network

• check the 'activate device when system starts' option in the general tab


• Wireless tab, specify a SSID an the key.


• Add a hostname to the dnstab, this prevents gnome from giving a strange message about adding a name to the hosts file.

Activate the wireless network card and save the configuration.

That did the trick for me.

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