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Re: Laptop Considerations
From: Chris Meidinger <chris.meidinger () badenit de>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:09:26 +0100
Hi Ghaith,I have no problems with a Cisco Aironet AIR-CB21AG-E-K9 Card under linux, which is an Atheros chipset. I prefer my other wireless cards, but this one's fine for checking 802.11a networks.
Try downloading a recent live cd (i prefer kanotix from www.kanotix.de) and booting with that. I can guarantee that kanotix will properly recognize atheros cards. Then you can see what the drivers are called, and compile them on your normal installed system no matter what distro.
Or just search google for "atheros linux." The second and third hits are both good. I use madwifi drivers, but vt_ar5k drivers should be fine as well.
Cheers, Chris Ghaith Nasrawi wrote:
some of you mentioned that they have 802.11a cards working under linux! All the 802.11a cards I've come across used Atheros chipsets, and I couldn't find linux drivers for any of them. How about you guys? also, did any of you find drivers for these intel chipsets that built-in with few laptops. cheers, ----- (o_ //\ Ghaith NasrawiV_/_PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one -- the knowledge and the dream. (The Devil's Dictionary)
Current thread:
- RE: Laptop Considerations Munoz, Hector (Dec 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Laptop Considerations Kris Wingard (Dec 13)
- RE: Laptop Considerations GDreelin (Dec 13)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Joe Smith (Dec 14)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Jaysen E. Sweeting (Dec 13)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Ghaith Nasrawi (Dec 13)
- Re: Laptop Considerations Chris Meidinger (Dec 13)
- RE: [in] RE: Laptop Considerations Curt Purdy (Dec 13)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Gary E. Miller (Dec 13)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Michael (Dec 14)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Henry Bauer (Dec 14)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Todd Towles (Dec 13)
- Re: Laptop Considerations Steve Hall (Dec 13)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Jim Bastos (Dec 13)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Ghaith Nasrawi (Dec 13)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Gary E. Miller (Dec 14)
- RE: Laptop Considerations Ghaith Nasrawi (Dec 13)
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