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SMC-SMCWCB-G wifi adapter on Linux

This CardBus wifi adapter works with Linux (Fedora Core 6) with madwifi 0.9.3.3 (compiled and installed from source).
Last updated: 3 October 2009

"EZ Connect g Wireless Cardbus Adapter"

This adapter works for me on a Dell Inspiron 8200 running Fedora Core 6. Linux did not initially recognize it at boot time, but it was simple to download the madwif driver package, build that from source and install it.

Note that in order to build and install the driver package you need to have the kernel-devel package installed (or the complete kernel sources).

Note also that madwifi creates two network devices, wifi0 and ath0. The first represents the hardware layer while the second is the sofware driver. So you control the interface through the second, ath0 (in place of, say, eth0).

Identification:

Saying `lspci` shows the card as
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Saying `lspci -n` to get the numerical device codes gives
07:00.0 0200: 168c:001a (rev 01)

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