Wi Fi on my laptop

[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 05:45 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >   
> >>     Well on my cheap laptop with Intrepid I did a lshw -C network and
> >> got this for my effort to connect to a WiFi internet.
> >>
> >>   *-network UNCLAIMED
> >>        description: Ethernet controller
> >>        product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
> >>     
> > ... 
> >   
> >> I gather the kernel driver for this device is un-availium on Linux.
> >>     
> >
> > Why?  A simple google for "linux AR242x ubuntu" says it is available, 
> > though perhaps not yet in a deb.
> >
> >   
>     It's available from a web page as a tar ball. Not for apt-get yet.
 
  Which is odd, openSuSE 11.0 shipped with the ath5k, a good 6 months
ago.