Wi Fi on my laptop

[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 05:48 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Mike McMullin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:11 -0700, 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
> >>        vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
> >>        physical id: 0
> >>        bus info: pci at 0000:02:00.0
> >>        version: 01
> >>        width: 64 bits
> >>        clock: 33MHz
> >>        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
> >>        configuration: latency=0
> >>
> >> I gather the kernel driver for this device is un-availium on Linux. It 
> >> seems to work ok for Windows.  What must I do to get WiFi on my Intrepid?
> >>     
> >
> >   The Atheros AR242x cards are supported using the mad-wifi kernel
> > module.  If there isn't one in the repositories then get the tarball
> > file from the Mad-Wifi site and e-mail me directly for instructions, if
> > you have problems installing it.
> >
> >
> >   
>     Hi Mike it is available from a web site as a tar ball. I followed 
> madberry's advice and got the tarball installed and working fine.

  I hope it works well for you, I run openSuSE on my laptop with that
wireless-nic and had to drop back to mad-wifi to get it to run
correctly.