madwifi during install?

[Henk Koster]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:38:13 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:

> I have a laptop I want to install Ubuntu Breezy on. It has a "LAN
> Express AS" card, which is apparently an Atheros chip supported by
> madwifi. The machine also has built-in wired ethernet. FYI, the wifi
> adapter connects to my AP under windows, and I'm not using WEP or WPA.
> 
> The Breezy Badger install isn't working, and I can't tell exactly why.
> Basically, it's failing on DHCP without
> 
> a) telling me which network card it's using
> b) giving me an opportunity to tell it to use the wifi card, and
> madwifi drivers (and manually install a driver, if that's necessary).
> 
> How do I get this to work? How do I get more control over the install?
> I tried "manually configure the network card," the option that comes
> up when DHCP fails, but that only allows me to enter an IP address,
> which is clearly not the problem. I think the install is just trying
> to use the wired ethernet adapter, which isn't plugged in.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt

The driver you need is in the "linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386"
package, available on the Breezy install CD. This package is not installed
by default.  

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H.A.J. Koster
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