FC5 - MadWifi Offline Installation

[Serdar]

Hi all,
I need to install madwifi for my wireless card. I know it is pretty easy to do that with yum however I only have wireless connection in my new house. So the only connection I have is on my windows computer.

What I need to do is downloading madwifi rpm which I cant find :) and burn them onto cd for the installation of my wireless card on FC5.

Thanks in advanca

-s

p.s. I've just moved this apartment and unfortunately stealing little bandwith from my neighboors til i get my own cable service :) So it is not something I do all the time.

[Deep3y3s]

I'm having the same problem. :(

But here is what I found.

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/GettingMadwifi



Downloading .rpms

For Fedora Core and RHEL see also UserDocs/Distro/RedHat

* madwifi-old: ATrpms has madwifi-old rpm support for Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Linux.

* madwifi-ng: ATrpms has madwifi-ng rpm support for Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Linux.

* Fedora users: Livna has madwifi RPMs for Fedora Core 4 and onwards. For Fedora Core 4, they are using madwifi-old ; madwifi-ng is used for Fedora Core 5.


I'm still a noob so I'm not sure which .rpm I need. I'm guessing I look for the one that matches my kernal. :confused:

I'm running FC4 on my Dell J650GT laptop (OLD, I know! :) )

Drivers for FC4

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/

Drivers for FC5

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/madwifi/

[Serdar]

I got my cable connection :) So I just connected my computer thru ethernet card and installed wireless card thru yum. Still don't know how to do that though :)

[Deep3y3s]

This is a really good walk-thru for installing madwifi.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43718&highlight=install+atheros


Edit: Well, I got my ethernet card to work and I updated my kernal and dependencies. Then I used the above thread to install madwifi. :D