Install your atheros wifi card on fedora 7
Yes, atheros cards are great but sometime not supported by default by some OS.
To install the madwifi drivers for your atheros on Fedora 7 do the following:
gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
and type
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever – $basearch – ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
and click on SAVE , also root import the gpg key from the terminal:
rpm –import http://atrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
then just use YUM to install everything you need!
yum install madwifi
You will get something like this:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install madwifi
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
atrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 224 kB 00:00
atrpms : ################################################## 1240/1240
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package madwifi.i386 1:0.9.4-38_r2512.fc7 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: madwifi-kmdl-1:0.9.4-38_r2512.fc7 for package: madwifi
–> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
–> Running transaction check
—> Package madwifi.i386 1:0.9.4-38_r2512.fc7 set to be updated…
