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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...