[elrepo] kmod-compat-wireless vith Centos/RHEL 6.4

[Phil Perry]

On 15/11/13 03:08, Frank Posito wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> I just saw the announcement for RHEL 6.4
>
> "kmod-compat-wireless does not support RHEL 6.4. Red Hat backported
> the wireless stack from kernel-3.5 in RHEL6.4 so users of 6.4 should
> uninstall kmod-compat-wireless and try the native wireless drivers in
> the distro kernel."
>
> I am using this USB " NetGear, Inc. WNA1100 Wireless-N 150 [Atheros
> AR9271]" that seems to be recognized by Centos6.4 but it doesn't
> create a wlan0 interface.
>
> My entire point is to create an AP with hostapd. If I install 6.3 will
> i be able to install kmod-compat-wireless and then install hostapd?
>
> Thanks,
> Frank

Hi Frank,

You want the ath9k_htc driver for the Atheros AR9271

Please try installing kmod-ath9k_htc and the corresponding firmware 
package ath9k_htc-firmware from the el6 elrepo repository:

yum install kmod-ath9k_htc ath9k_htc-firmware

and let us know how you get on. I'd expect the device to be detected in 
NetworkManager after a reboot.

Hope that helps,

Phil