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Grant Sewell wrote: > 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. Got it working! There was a new Madwifi HAL released not long ago... I got a copy of the lastest and installed it and BOOM my wireless works under Penguin Power. *sigh of relief* Now I can get on with ignoring Vista. Yay! :) 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