PCMCIA wifi AT&T 6700G

srhegde · Post by **srhegde** » 2007/04/30 03:48:14

Hi,
I have a thinkpad x24 with kubuntu in one partition.
I installed centos5 on the other partition through WIRED internet. I am unable to make the wifi working. I have a AT&T Plug &Share 54Mbps wireless notbook adaptor Model No:6700G.
This same device works perfectly with kubuntu. I am not sure how to make this work on Centos5
On inserting this PCMCIA card, the dmesg says "pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0".
The lspci -v gives the following message.

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 18a3:0427
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at c2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

ANy kind of help is appreciated.

Regards
srhegde

duardito · Post by **duardito** » 2007/04/30 08:09:38

what modul is loaded in kubuntu to charge your pcmcia card?
try to know this and you will be able to load in centos.
if not, you can try ndiswrapper.

Lenard · Post by **Lenard** » 2007/04/30 11:38:47

You need the madwifi driver. Follow the instructions here and add the rpmforge-release package;

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B

Then do (as root or equivalent) something like: yum install madwifi

srhegde · Post by **srhegde** » 2007/05/08 04:31:24

it was default install on kubuntu
i did not do a single command line to get it to work on kubuntu
only difference i see between kubuntu and centos is that the kernel version 2.6.20 vs 2.6.18

Lenard · Post by **Lenard** » 2007/05/08 10:17:47

Well there are a lot of differences between CentOS and Kubuntu starting with the kernel. Since CentOS follows the Red Hat Enterprise Linux standards and Kubuntu does not, Kubuntu has additional packages that Red Hat does not for legal concerns. This why third party repo's like Dag Wieers's site come in handy.

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