Wi Fi on my laptop

[Derek Broughton]

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