Atheros AR 5212/5213 with Madwifi, YUM and livna

Requirements

1. Read our Getting Started with Wireless Guide.
   
2. This assumes you have a working Fedora installation and that you have configured yum to use rpm.livna.org

Doing the work

1. Update your system
   

   su -c "yum update"

   If your kernel was among the items updated you will want to reboot.
2. Install the kernel module and other parts
   

   su -c "yum install madwifi"

   This installs all necessary files.
3. Reboot
4. Configure your ath0 wireless card normally

   su -c "system-config-network"
   

       check "Controlled by NetworkManager" and check "Activate device when Computer  starts"

More Information

For a AR5007EG follow this link: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhwireless.html

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

Added Reading

• http://fedorasolved.org/
• http://rpm.livna.org/
• http://madwifi.org/
• http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
• http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/RedHat
• http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/madwifi
• http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k