Configuring a Madwifi supported wirless card

This short howto details how to configure the AT&T 6550G wifi card in Fedora Core 4. I selected this wifi card as it on list of network cards supported by MADWiFi. MADWiFi is a set of wireless network card drivers which are Atheros-based in their chipset.
Contents:

Assumptions

• You have already setup and internet connection
• You know how to enter commands into the command line
• You know how to become root, or run a command as root

Prerequisites

Before embarking upon the steps detailed below, you should first have your yum repos as detailed by FedoraFaq. You can find the instructions to do this here.

Hardware

AT&T 6550G Wireless 802.11g 108Mbps Super G PC
however, this procedure should work for any madwifi supported card.

Software involved

• MadWifi

Instructions

Installation of the card into the machine was as simple as properly placing the card into a free PCI slot, screwing it in, and then screwing on the antenna.

The drivers for this card does not come standard with the kernel distributed by Fedora in FC4, so the drivers will have to be installed. The following command as supper user (root) will do the installtion of the necessary drivers from MADWiFi:

yum --enablerepo=atrpms install madwifi madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r`

After successful installtion of the MADWiFi packages, restart that computer so that Fedora, with the new drivers may detect and setup the card for use.

Once you are logged in, run the 'system-config-network' tool, either by issueing the following command:

system-config-network

or by navigating to 'System Settings > Network'. From there, you can configure your wirless network card accordingly.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, corrections, or suggestions.

References

• http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/

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