Hi Lisi On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 09:47AM +0000, Lisi wrote: > I am trying to set up the wireless card in Lenny on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. > Linpus has no problems, but the sooner I can wipe it off the hard drive the > happier I shall be. :-( > > I have wicd 1.6.2.2 (bzr -r463) installed. I have installed the Atheros 5 > driver module and now get the following results from lshw and modprobe -l:
I have an Atheros card on my laptop as well and am running it with madwifi as the ath5k*-modules weren't able to do the job for me so far. But madwifi-(modules|tools) (think that's in the non-free repository) with (custom-built) kernel 2.6.26 and wicd 1.6.2.2 (from the backports) works fine for me. I still have issues with the connection being lost every now and then but I'm fairly confident that's a problem caused by my router since everyone sharing this wireless-access-point has the same problem. My card is the following: a...@herbx:~$ lspci | grep -i ath 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 04) I'd suggest if you have that card (or something similar), go with madwifi (although some people reported that they got same type of card working with the ath5*-modules on newer (>=2.6.30) kernels without any hassle. Hope that helps... Cheerio Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100220125909.ga2...@herbx.tri