Wireless Atheros AR5BXB63 or AR5006EG 802.11 b/g in fedora 8
Monday, February 4, 2008
(some screenshot of wicd & network applet from my desktop , yes, it come from acer aspire 4520)
this tutorial intend to fedora 8 (acer aspire 4520) with some info about setup wireless connection for atheros AR5BXB63
What you need ?
- ndiswrapper 1.52
- kernel with CONFIG_4KSTACKS disabled
- Windows XP atheros driver from acer.com.cn , pick Wireless Atheros driver
ndiswrapper
1. Download latest ndiswrapper from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93482
2. extract ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz
3. use terminal & enter to the following directory
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# make
...
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# make install
IF you get message like this
'*** WARNING: This kernel seems to use 4K stack size option (CONFIG_4KSTACKS); many Windows drivers will not work with this option enabled. Disable CONFIG_4KSTACKS option, recompile and install kernel' , you need to compile your own kernel or try using my own kernel in following post
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.52]# rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper
(this will remove any previous installation by ndiswrapper)
Wireless Atheros driver
1. download above link, extract and open terminal into the extracted folder
[root@localhost Atheros]# /usr/bin/ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf
installing net5211 ...
forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
........
2. this will list installed driver.
[root@localhost Atheros]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
net5211 : driver installed
device (168C:001C) present (alternate driver: ath5k)
[root@localhost Atheros]#modprobe ndiswrapper
3. try dmesg for kernel module log or ipconfig.
[root@localhost Atheros]# dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper: driver net5211 (,11/15/2006,5.1.1.9) loaded
ndiswrapper (ZwClose:2227): closing handle 0xf66ad928 not implemented
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 18
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:442): setting bit rate failed (C0010017)
[root@localhost Atheros]#dmesg
.......
ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper: driver net5211 (,11/15/2006,5.1.1.9) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK3E] enabled at IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> Link [LK3E] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ndiswrapper (ZwClose:2227): closing handle 0xeaa4c928 not implemented
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:07:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 18
wlan0: ethernet device 00:19:7e:c3:94:fb using serialized NDIS driver: net5211, version: 0x50001, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 168C:001C.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[root@localhost Atheros]# ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:24:09:34:11
inet addr:10.0.0.7 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2039 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1300812 (1.2 MiB) TX bytes:358189 (349.7 KiB)
Interrupt:220 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:40675 (39.7 KiB) TX bytes:40675 (39.7 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:7E:D3:84:FB
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Memory:f4000000-f4010000
[root@localhost Atheros]#
Wireless
i use WPA2 encryption for home networking, so Network Manager can take care all of it, there might be some problem for first time connection, so to solved it, i just need to restart wpa_supplicant via terminal
[root@localhost Atheros]# /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant restart
hope thats help.. : )
