On Thu, Aug 05, 2010, Jon Jermey wrote: > I'm trying to get Linux running from an SD card boot on an Asus eee > 1005p but every distro I have tried so far fails to recognise the Wi-Fi > (Atheros). Wired connections are working. Does anyone know of a distro > which recognises wireless out of the box on this specific model or, > failing that, a reliable set of instructions to get one working?
You "just" need to compile the latest wireless-compat source tarball for your kernel. It'll include much more up to date ath9k drivers. I have one of these very-recent atheros chipset eeepc laptops and it works fine. Just need to remember to recompile it every time the kernel is updated. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $24/pm+GST entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
