CentOS virt - Jun 2011 - My CentOS in VMware can't find my wireless card

hi,
   i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my
CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5)
in VMware.
And my wireless card is MERCURY 54U(Atheros AR5xxx).I plugged the USB card
into my virtual machine, but it couldn't be found.
I've tried two drivers in different time:
1)install ath5k:
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[root at wulmcent ~]# lsmod |grep ath5k
[root at wulmcent ~]# modprobe ath5k
[root at wulmcent ~]# lsmod |grep ath5k
ath5k                  97001  0
mac80211              137545  1 ath5k
cfg80211               30793  2 ath5k,mac80211
[root at wulmcent ~]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:F5:3D:F3
          inet addr:172.3.0.5  Bcast:172.3.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef5:3df3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:16417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1434 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1311085 (1.2 MiB)  TX bytes:211106 (206.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:67 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:15568 (15.2 KiB)  TX bytes:15568 (15.2 KiB)

[root at wulmcent ~]#
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2)install madwifi(0.9.4)
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[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# modprobe ath_pci
[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# lsmod|grep ath_pci
ath_pci                88868  0
wlan                  181904  1 ath_pci
ath_hal               195536  1 ath_pci
[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:F5:3D:F3
          inet addr:172.3.0.5  Bcast:172.3.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef5:3df3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:17055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1663 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1369453 (1.3 MiB)  TX bytes:239700 (234.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:67 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:15568 (15.2 KiB)  TX bytes:15568 (15.2 KiB)

[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# dmesg |grep ath5k
[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# dmesg |grep ath
device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath_pci: 0.9.4
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As the message displayed above, my system didn't find my wireless card.
I don't know what to do to fix it.
I need your help, thank you!

===woo
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> hi,
> ? ?i'm woo,?I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my
CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5)
> in VMware.
> And my wireless card is MERCURY 54U(Atheros AR5xxx).I plugged the USB card
> into my virtual machine, but it couldn't be found.
First off. Which VMWare program are you using? There are some pretty
big differences between the Player/Workstation/Server family and the
ESX(i)/vSphere family of products.

ESX you can pretty much write that idea off unless you have a newer
system that supports Intel's VT-d (or AMD's equivalent). Player is a
bit different if it's a usb device as you can attach to the guest a
required.

Assuming Player, are you *absolutely sure* that you connected the USB
device to the guest per VMware's procedures? If yes, what's the output
of "lsusb"? We need to know *if* it's being seen by the guest at
all
to begin with.


-- 
Drew

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
--Marie Curie

"This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control."
-Unknown

liming wu wrote on 06/07/2011 11:27 PM:
>     i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my
> CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in VMware.
You would probably have a better chance of getting drivers to work if 
you were not using a seriously obsolete release.  The current and only 
supported release is 5.6.

Phil