[SATLUG] help with wireless card Atheros ARG5005 rev 01

[Samuel Leon]

riugakusei at netscape.net wrote:
>  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:
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Are you trying to connect through command line?  If so you need to issue 
a command to your dhcp client.  Something like:

 From http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

ifconfig ath0 up
ifconfig essid "essidname"
then
dhcpcd ath0
or
dhcpbd ath0