[SATLUG] help with wireless card Atheros ARG5005 rev 01

[riugakusei at netscape.net]

 i am running FC6 with an Atheros AR5005g NIC rev 1 card, i installed madwifi and loaded ath_pci module and my card des get recognized, i can see the wirless networkavalable but i won't pick up no ip address via dhcp,i get the following form dmesg|grep ath:
 
 #dmesg|grep ath: /* i have no ide what this output means */
 ath_hal: no version for"struct_module" foundkernel tainted
 ath_hal: module license 'propietary ' taints kernel
 ath_hal: 0.9.18 (AR5210, AR5211,RF5111,RF5112,RF2413,RF5413)
 ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.13)
 ath_pci: 0.9.4.5(0.9.3)
 device-mapper: multippath : version 1.0.4 loaded
 
 from dmesg|grep wifi0:
 wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mdps 2mps 5.5 mps 48 mps 54mps / *there were several lines because they had the same ouput */
 wifi): H/W encriion supported: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
 wifi0: use hw que 1 for WME_ACBE traffffic
 wif0:Atheros 5212: mem= 0xc300000, irq=2333
 
 from lsmod|grep ath:
 dm_multipath 22601 0
 d_mod 61529 2 dm_mirror,dm_multpath
 ath_pci 91940 0
 ath_rate_sample 17536 1 ath_pci
 wlan 185948 4 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
 ath_hal 195152 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
 
 hope that info can help you figure my problem., i just don't want to use Windows . thanks for your patience
 Vega
   
 -----Original Message-----
 From: bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
 To: satlug at satlug.org
 Sent: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 2:23 PMe
 Subject: Re: [SATLUG] error while executing make
 
  R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> 
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:19 AM, riugakusei at netscape.net wrote:
> 
>>     i havea acer aspire 9300 laptop i did a fresh install of f c 6, al
>> i got to do is complile the acer_acpi module and enable the wireless
>> in order for it to work. y problem ste following.
>>  everytime i do make it gives me a lot of errors, any idea how to get
>> around this? my wireless card is an Atheros AR5005G rev 01, i loaaded
>> ath_pci and it gets rcognized... but still no wirlesss...any help?
>>   Medar
> 
> Error messages! We need error messages!

The above *is* an error message.  It certainly is not coherent.

  -- Bruce
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