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

[Phil Perry]

On 16/11/13 03:22, Frank Posito wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> You were absolutely right !
> I ran yum install kmod-ath9k_htc ath9k_htc-firmware
> and it was detected !
>
> merci
>
> Frank

Hi Frank,

Brilliant - glad it works for you.

We really appreciate end user feedback as we are unable to test most of 
the drivers ourselves as we don't have the physical hardware, and we get 
far too little feedback from users so it is much appreciated.

Regards,

Phil