Newbie: Help with configuring Wifi Nic Card..I think?

[Seve]

Brand new to linux so I am quite dense with most of this. Installed about a week ago, went through the dual boot woes, Nvidia drivers, Firefox and an HP printer,however.....
I have a Dlink DWL-G520 Wirless Nic installed that I cannot seem to configure through the system-config-network as the Hardware is not there to select from?
I followed the forum "how to's" for Madwifi, however I must have missed something.

AFIK the hardware /driver is installed, as indicated in the Hardware browser, but I cannot select it when I try to configure the network as it is not one of the cards listed.

System Tools> Hardware Browser> Network Devices
AR5212 802.11abg NIC
Manufacturer: Atheros Communications, Inc
Driver: ath_pci
Device: /dev/eth1

The Netgear FA311 ethernet card is /dev/eth0

Included is the following info if that helps.

# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:60:2D:70
inet addr:192.168.0.103 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fe60:2d70/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1175 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1225108 (1.1 Mb) TX bytes:279618 (273.0 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3518478 (3.3 Mb) TX bytes:3518478 (3.3 Mb)

# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

# /sbin/lspci -v
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
Subsystem: Netgear FA311 / FA312 (FA311 with WoL HW)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 9000
Memory at e3011000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DWL-G520 Wireless PCI Adapter
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

The contents of my ifcg-ath0

# AR5212 802.11abg NIC
STARTMODE=hotplug
ONBOOT=yes
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
WIRELES=yes
MODE=Auto
ESSID=Albert
CHANNEL=6
IPADDR=192.168.0.1
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
KEY=


The Boot Log has the following entry as well:

Oct 11 20:33:48 localhost ifup: done.
Oct 11 20:33:48 localhost ifup: localhost
Oct 11 20:33:48 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
Oct 11 20:33:48 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth1: succeeded

Fedora 2.6.8-1.521
Gnome Desktop
Dual boot with XP

I appreciate any suggestions or help of any kind.

Thanks

Seve

[james_in_denver]

What is the module name for your wireless adaptor???..

Did you add an alias in your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf files????...

[Seve]

Originally Posted by james_in_denver

What is the module name for your wireless adaptor???..

Did you add an alias in your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf files????...

What is the module name for your wireless adaptor???..

I not sure what it is, how do I find out?

Did you add an alias in your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf files????...


No I did not add an alias. Was I supposed too?

Thanks for your patience

Seve

You siad you followed the madwifi howto, did you use the rpm or source method? Please post your /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

[Seve]

Originally Posted by superbnerd

You siad you followed the madwifi howto, did you use the rpm or source method? Please post your /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

Hi thanks for responding supernerd... I used the source method.

Contents of:
/etc/modprobe.conf

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
alias usb-controller2 uhci-hcd
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias eth0 natsemi
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias char-major-195* nvidia
options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1
alias char-major-195* nvidia
Contents of:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

# AR5212 802.11abg NIC
STARTMODE=hotplug
ONBOOT=yes
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
WIRELES=yes
MODE=Auto
ESSID=Albert
CHANNEL=6
IPADDR=192.168.0.1
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
KEY


Seve

First off, the device is not eth1, but ath0. In your modprobe.conf, add this line

alias ath0 ath_pci

and make a new file called ifcfg-ath0 in the same directory as your ifcfg-eth1 with the following content

STARTMODE=hotplug
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
#IPADDR=192.168.0.1
DOMAIN=
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=Albert
CHANNEL=6
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto

Then do a

/sbin/ifup ath0

and check if it is functioning

/sbin/iwconfig

In any case, once you have the modprobe.conf and ifcfg-ath0 setup you should be able to use the gui, system-config-network (Main Menu > System Settings > Network) to configure it.

[Seve]

Originally Posted by superbnerd

First off, the device is not eth1, but ath0. In your modprobe.conf, add this line

alias ath0 ath_pci

and make a new file called ifcfg-ath0 in the same directory as your ifcfg-eth1 with the following content

STARTMODE=hotplug
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
#IPADDR=192.168.0.1
DOMAIN=
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=Albert
CHANNEL=6
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto

Then do a

/sbin/ifup ath0

and check if it is functioning

/sbin/iwconfig

In any case, once you have the modprobe.conf and ifcfg-ath0 setup you should be able to use the gui, system-config-network (Main Menu > System Settings > Network) to configure it.

Thanks very much for your help superbnerd, as I mentioned at the outset I was dense.

I did all the steps you instructed and here is the output from /sbin/iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Albert" Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:3F:14:20
Bit Rate:36Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:52/94 Signal level:-43 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I feel like a complete person again...well almost.

You folks are the greatest. I want to thank you for your help it is really appreciated.

Seve

[leaded]

I just got my same card working using MadWifi.

For those getting stumped, or want some help, check out
http://madwifiwiki.thewebhost.de/wik...ndDLinkDWLG520

It's tailored for Mandrake, but with some replacement of commands (yum instead of uprmi) it can be of some help.

[Seve]

Yes its nice to have it finally working as well. I am learning as I go, which is slow and painful at times but its's runnin.

Good link BTW

Seve