Pls help! Trying to get wireless working.

Can anyone help me to get GigaByte GN-WI01HT (Atheros AR5006XS chipset) working under PCLinuxOS? I assume the drivers are the same for all Linux distro?

I really wan't to try and get away from windows but Linux seems tough with all the command line instructions.

Any help much appreciated.

 

This thread covers getting Atheros cards to work with Ubuntu. Hope it helps.

 

Woohoo I managed to get this working. It was actually easier than I thought. Thanks for your effort in helping. I've rep you!

PCLinuxOS comes with NDISwrapper which can use windows drivers to get the wifi card working. I just needed to point it to the inf file. NDISwrapper is a great easy step by step GUI, a bit like windows. All the time I was looking for a Linux driver for NDIS... lol

 

Well, it's great that it's working, but it's really only a patch. NDISwrapper will run slowly and you may consequently experience a slow connection. You can rectify this by installing madwifi drivers. This page should give you some info on it. Good luck, and let us know if you have any problems.

 

Thanks I just tried it. I installed madwifi with synaptic package manager and went through new connection wizard and selected my Atheros AR5005XS but I'm not sure if I'm using NDISwrapper or madwifi. How do I tell? Also what is the difference between Open WEP and Restricted WEP. I only have WEP security because my router is very old... I don't think it supports WPA.

 

Well, if you really want to be sure that you're using the madwifi driver, you could just remove the windows driver from NDISwrapper. If it stops working, they you're using NDISwrapper; if it doesn't, then you're using madwifi.

As to the WEP question, I don't pretend to know much about networking. Sorry.

 

Go to a console, and type "lsmod | grep ndis". If the only thing that comes up is "grep ndis" on a line, then you're using madwifi. If not, ndiswrapper is still loaded.

And you probably want to use Open WEP. Here's a link on the difference:

http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostap/2002-04/0449.html

 

Thanks everyone for your help. I will give it another bash tomorrow but so it's been a pleasant learning curve.