HELP: Proxim 802.11a/b/g Combocard, b/g PC Card working on Linux

I desperately need help getting the following cards working on an
Inspiron 600m laptop running Fedora Core 1:

Orinoco Proxim 802.11b/g PC Card (Gold) - Model 8470-WD
Orinoco Proxim 802.11a/b/g Combocard (Gold) - Model 8480-WD

I have been at this for a week now. I have already gone through the
RedHat8-Kismet-HOWTO doc, installed the orinoco drivers from
airsnort.schmoo.com, as well as installed the MadWiFi drivers (since
these are Atheros based cards). The access point I am using
(DWL-7000AP) does not have WEP enabled nor is it doing any filtering;
its open. I should note that the cards work A-OK under Windows XP!

I even tried:

[root@localhost root]# ifconfig ath0 172.20.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
[root@localhost root]# ifconfig ath0 up
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig ath0 txpower auto
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig ath0 essid "524"
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig ath0 enc off
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig ath0 mode Managed
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig ath0 rate auto
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig ath0 channel 1
[root@localhost root]#
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig ath0
ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"524"
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.825GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:6Mb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retryff RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0/94 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The modules appear to get loaded and the card seems to be recognized:

[root@localhost root]# lsmod | grep ath
ath_pci 31156 1
wlan 49608 1 [ath_pci]
ath_hal 120720 1 [ath_pci]

[root@localhost root]# dmesg | grep ath
ath_hal: 0.9.6.11
ath_pci: 0.8.5.1 BETA
ath_pci: cache line size not set; forcing 32
divert: allocating divert_blk for ath0
ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: turbo rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:20:a6:4f:bb:87
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x20800000, irq=11

I even put "alias ath0 ath_hal" in /etc/modules and created ifcfg-ath0
to be:

DEVICE=ath0
# Change next line to "ONBOOT=yes" to have this device start at boot
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
USERCTL=no
MTU=''
#BOOTPROTO=dhcp
# Uncomment above line and comment out next 4 lines to use DHCP
IPADDR=172.20.1.201
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=172.20.1.1
WIRELESS=yes
IWCONFIG='txpower auto'
#MODE='Managed'
ESSID='523'
NICK=''
NWID=''
FREQ=''
CHANNEL=36
SENS=''
RATE='auto'
KEY=''
RTS=''
FRAG=''

But when I boot I get the message "ath_hal device ath0 does not seem to
be present, delaying initialization"

I really need some help to get these cards working on my Linux Fedora
Core 1 laptop. I have been at this for days and still no-go. Any help
is greatly appreciated!

--john

> I even put "alias ath0 ath_hal" in /etc/modules and created ifcfg-ath0
> to be:

Try "alias ath0 ath_pci" in /etc/modules instead. That worked for me
(and I had tried "alias ath0 ath_hal" first too).

Hope that helps.

-- Murphy