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

 

Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:18:11 +0100, Mark Evans wrote:
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>> Grant Sewell wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> 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. :)
>>>       
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> 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.

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