Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: <-- SNIP --> me. Guess which ones I use. :-) Sorry I wasn't able to help you get it running. Au contraire, thanks a lot for helping me. Right now the pcmia or usb wifi card seems the best option. Any recomm

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Wayne Topa wrote: >> Output of lspci -vvv >> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg >> NIC (rev 01) >> Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 >> Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- Me

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Here's w

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: <--SNIP--> Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The dr

Re: Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Kevin Mitchell
I've been using ath9k in a 2.6.27-rc3 testing kernel and it works great! The sureest bet would be to download and compile that kernel which I've documented here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_install_the_development_version_of_atk9k. Alternatively, there is a thread in Ubuntu forums where a

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Wayne Topa wrote: >> >>> Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> > > <--SNIP--> > Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibi

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: <--SNIP--> Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci w

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-19 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Wayne Topa wrote: >> >>> Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: > My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. > > Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-19 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Wayne Topa wrote: >> >> >>> My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. >>> >>> Wayne >> None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to >> David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but >> still could

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: David Goodenough wrote: Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr or ifconfig. David Thanks for that

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of k

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
David Goodenough wrote: >> Does this look like it's happy with the driver? >> Cheers, >> Jonathan >> >> -- >> Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ > > Its a good start. Now you need to try connecting to the great outside. > > David OK, thanks David. We'll look for an AP and gi

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > > > > Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by > > looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to > > see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
David Goodenough wrote: > > Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by > looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to > see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr or > ifconfig. > > David Thanks for that David. I

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. > > > > Wayne > > None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David > also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still > couldn't g

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: > > My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. > > Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
David Goodenough wrote: On Monday 18 August 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, <<-- SNIP --> At this link http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k I found the following instructions: Enabling ath9k To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211: I'm not sure what

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian > > Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and > > found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over the drivers and released the code. It seems I need an

where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over the drivers and released the code. It seems I need an ath9k driver and that I