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On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:18:11 +0100, Mark Evans wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > Does iwconfig show an association with an access point? It is possible > to get some strange behaviour if the driver is almost, but not quite > correct. > >> being Ubuntu 8.0.4, but others are welcome. :) > > http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/05/ubuntu-804-enabling-atheros-ar5007-based-wireless/ > > Has instructions on how to do this with the madwifi driver. > > Since this driver isn't part of the standard kernel (or the Ubuntu .deb) > you will need to rebuild it (and make sure that the modules wind up in > the right part of /lib/modules) if the kernel is updated. I've tried to follow the 64bit instructions... I didn't do anything about getting a newer ndiswrapper since it actually doesn't say that you'd need to do anything with it. I think I'll improvise a little and read between the lines on that post. Cheers. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html