madwifi device activation problem

[shangyung]

I installed madwifi for the IBM a/b/g built-in wifi card on my ThinkPad T41. The device (ath0) is set to activate automatically on boot. When the T41 reboots, ath0 is shown to be activated successfully. But when I logged in, the autostarted KWifiManager couldn't find ath0. Nor is it present upon running the commands ifconfig and iwconfig.

However, once I started the System Settings/Network GUI (without manually activating ath0 yet) , KWifiManager detected ath0 right away and then connected it to the router automatically. This is really annoying even though the device is working properly. Any suggestions to fix this annoyance?

[leaded]

I can help hopefully!

As su, edit your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 file

There should be an option for ONBOOT=no , change it to yes.

Otherwise, on the command line, you can always do # /sbin/ifup ath0 . That should also launch ath0.

[shangyung]

I have the option ONBOOT=yes already because the device (ath0) has been set to activate automatically on boot. Moreover, I have had tried /sbin/ifup ath0, but it didn't work since /sbin/ifconfig does not show the presence of ath0. Anyway, thanks.

[shangyung]

Problem solved! :)

Modify /etc/modprobe.conf by changing the line
alias eth1 ath_pci
to
alias ath0 ath_pci
then reboot.

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