Atheros AR5bxb61 wont activate in fedora

[Draven]

Hello I am new to Linux and I have been searching this for a week now. I have a new Toshiba Satellite with the Atheros AR5bxb61 mini pci-e card in it. in the network device control it shows ath0 but when i try to activate it it say's "device does not seem to be present delaying initialization." I am a noob to linux and desperately want to understand and power use linux to it's max, but i am starting to get frustrated cause BT3 live cd & USB both can use my wireless better than windows. can someone help me understand this please.

 

Thanks

[anyweb]

have you looked into ndiswrapper at all ? most likely your card will need it

 

heres some info about it and a guide here

 

cheers

anyweb

[Draven]

this is what I get when I use yum for a lot of things not just NDISWRAPPER, any suggestions. I'm using Fedora

8

 

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So obviously I feel like an idiot, how would I download and manually install anything for that matter from an ****.tar.gz ?

[anyweb]

you must have internet access to do this, do you ?

 

if you do and you still get that message then try

 

Code:

yum install ndiswrapper

 

cheers

[Draven]

I figured it out!!!! [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img] <_<d@#$ that really sucked, I had to google it in thirty different times in a million different context but I found it. I added the

 

# # sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

 

then

 

# # sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

 

to add the new repository and lastly I used

 

# # sudo yum -y install ndiswrapper

 

thanks anyweb for the guide and idea's for this I am reading now and going to implement if I can, I'll post any problems and my eventual success.

[Draven]

We'll I am really upset it turns out that my wireless card is not supported in Fedora, I have the Atheros AR5BXB61 aka AR5211 chipset now I have read a team is working on making functional drivers but as of right now: no dice :( . Although what I don't understand is that in both Backtrack 2&3 my Wireless card worked? Am I missing something? Also I got ndiswrapper to install but now when I open a terminal and su then input ndiswrapper commands they are not found? any idea? thanks

[anyweb]

regarding commands not found

 

when you su make sure to use the path as well

 

so

 

instead of

Code:

su

 

do

 

Code:

su -