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Fully supported AR2417 WiFi doesn't work in CentOS
Posted: 2015/02/07 19:34:19
by gnufreex
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-network:0 UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR2417 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5007G 802.11bg]
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=64 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10
resources: memory:febf0000-febfffff
I used Fedora on this computer since Fedora 16 and every single one supported this WiFi card with open source driver. CentOS 7 is based on Fedora 19, I remember this card working with Fedora 19. But in CentOS 7 it doesn't work. When I boot to Fedora 21 on other partition, it works. Heck, I even remember Trisquel working on this computer with all free firmware and drivers.
So, why is this driver removed? How do I put it back?
Re: Fully supported AR2417 WiFi doesn't work in CentOS
Posted: 2015/02/16 17:02:03
by NedSlider
I believe this device requires the ath5k driver. Red Hat removed the ath5k driver from RHEL7.
You can get the driver from elrepo.org. Set up the elrepo repository then do:
yum install kmod-ath5k
and reboot.