Problem: wireless network PC Card not recognised

[Nikobelia]

I'm running Fedora 9 on an RM laptop, and the internal wireless card recently died. I've bought a new one, Netgear WG511v2, (which I understand runs on the Atheros chipset and should be supported by the Madwifi drivers.)

I followed instructions on Madwifi's homepage and on the Fedora Unity site, and downloaded the drivers from the Livna repository, and running "yum install madwifi" comes back saying "nothing to do". But the next step in howto guides seems to be "configure ath0 in Network Settings", and although the PC Card shows up, neither the Network tool or ifconfig can see ath0 or any other new wireless device.

This is the output from lspci:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
Subsystem: Netgear WG511v2 54 Mbps Wireless PC Card
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at c4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Memory at c4010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

Does that mean the madwifi driver isn't recognising the card? If so, how do I get it to? Please help!

Thanks in advance,

Nikki

[bbfuller]

Hello Nikobelia

The output you have posted means that your card doesn't have an atheros chipset in it and therefore madwifi won't work.

Manufacturers are well known for changing the chipset in their cards with very little evidence.

Your card has the "Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335" chipset in it and will require a totally different solution.

I don't have one of those cards to practice on I'm afraid but I suggest you search the forum for:

88w8335

[Nikobelia]

Ah, thanks.

... Dammit. Stupid chipset.

But still, thankyou very much.

[bbfuller]

Hello Nikobelia

Post back if you have any problems, I know the general places to look for wireless chipset info.

Just not much time at the moment.