Wi Fi on my laptop
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Nov 21 13:59:40 UTC 2008
Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 05:45 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > Karl Larsen wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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.
$ dlocate ath5k.ko
linux-image-2.6.26-5-generic: /lib/modules/2.6.26-5-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko
The odd thing here is that I'm running the 2.6.26 kernel I ran with
Hardy because my e100 driver doesn't always reset properly after
hibernate in 2.6.27. But my 2.6.27 kernel _doesn't_ contain ath5k.ko
--
derek
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