madwifi during install?

[Matt Morgan]

On 11/16/05, Henk Koster <H.A.J.Koster at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Can you point me somewhere that explains how I tell the Ubuntu
install that I need a special driver?