CentOS - Dec 2008 - What ever happened to the dkms atheros drivers/

My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in 
quite a while, I again need to run madwifi.  So I went looking for the 
dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them.  They use to be on rpmforge, 
as I recall.  dkms is there.

So have I lost some memory cells or have these rpms taken a hike?

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in 
> quite a while, I again need to run madwifi.  So I went looking for the 
> dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them.  They use to be on rpmforge, 
> as I recall.  dkms is there.
>   
Not sure what a OQO box is, but I'm running 64 bit Fedora 9
with kernel  2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64 and my AR5700 works fine.

With  previous  kernels,  I had to use madwifi.

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Agile Aspect wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in 
>> quite a while, I again need to run madwifi.  So I went looking for the 
>> dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them.  They use to be on
rpmforge,
>> as I recall.  dkms is there.
>>   
>>     
> Not sure what a OQO box is, but I'm running 64 bit Fedora 9
> with kernel  2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64 and my AR5700 works fine.
>   
This is for the OQOs that have Centos on them. This is interesting to 
know for the one that has F10 on it.

> With  previous  kernels,  I had to use madwifi.

Long back I used the kmod-madwifi patched kernel from atrpms, but then 
we got a dkms loadable madwifi and no more kernel patches. DKMS is how I 
am running my ipw3945 driver on this notebook.

--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
> Subject: [CentOS] What ever happened to the dkms atheros drivers/
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 2:47 PM
> My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first
> time in 
> quite a while, I again need to run madwifi.  So I went
> looking for the 
> dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them.  They use to be
> on rpmforge, 
> as I recall.  dkms is there.
> 
It's still there, called
madwifi

You might expect it to be called dkms-madwfi, but there is no <dkms->
prefix. It still is hooked in to the dkms model.

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Mark