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Re: [LUG] Interesting Vista ACPI feature...

 

Julian Hall wrote:
> Grant Sewell wrote:
>   
>> Now that rant's off my chest... anyone got any positive stories about 
>> AR5007 chipset wireless cards under Linux?  That's what's in this baby.  
>> I've got it to the point where it will now see the wireless networks 
>> about, just not connect to them!  Arghgh!  Current distro of choice 
>> being Ubuntu 8.0.4, but others are welcome. :)
>>   
>>     
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45767
>
> I would be inclined to go the madwifi route rather than ndiswrapper, but 
> that's just me :)  I've used Madwifi before and it works very well with 
> Atheros chipsets as it says on the tin :)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Julian
>
>   
Hi Julian,

The AR5007 isn't yet supported by the MadWifi team.  It should be 
supported by the Ath5X (or whatever their next-gen Atheros support is 
gonna be called), but that's not out yet, and doesn't support the AR5007 
yet either.

Cheers anyway.
Grant.

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