WiFi Toshiba Sattelite A70 Atheros AR5004X

["David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com>]

I posted this question on the regular Debian-Users List, but I thought I'd try this one as well.

I recently acquired a Toshiba Satellite A70 with Atheros AR5004X chip (as well as Sid, 2.6.12, KDE 3.4.2 and 
X.org).

How do I get this WiFi to work? Do I absolutely need to compile my own kernel? I tried ndiswrapper, but that is not for the Kernel that I have.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

I thank you kindly in advance.

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