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

[Frank Posito]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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Hi Phil,

You were absolutely right !
I ran yum install kmod-ath9k_htc ath9k_htc-firmware
and it was detected !

merci

Frank