Re: Debian and Atheros Wireless card
Hi Abhi, I don't know anything about your madwifi drivers, but the process of rolling your kernel in Debian is very simple once you have it setup. These two links look pretty helpful:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html#TREE-KERNEL-PKG
The basic process is:
1. unpack kernel source in /usr/src
2. ln -s <kernel-source-directory> linux
3. cd linux
4. make menuconfig (then choose kernel options, some of which CAN result in a kernel that won't boot--be careful!)
5. make-kpkg kernel_image (you will find the result in /usr/src)
6. dpkg -i /usr/src/<name-of-new-kernel-image>
7. reboot
I strongly suggest you do a bit of reading in the above references first, as I am leaving out some details.
Clayton
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:36:53 -0400
"abhishek soni" <soni_abhishek5@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a couple of interconnected questions and they relate to getting my
> wireless working with Debian.
>
> Details: I have a Netgear WG511 wireless card based on the Atheros chipset
> which uses madwifi drivers.
> Also I am running Debian on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 2430-S255) Sarge
> with kernel 2.4.27-1-386.
>
> Now I previously had this card working in Ubuntu but there are some programs
> that I need, that will work only with a 2.4 kernel. Hence I had to switch to
> Debian. In order to install the madwifi drivers, I need to install the
> kernel-source. So I did an apt-get install kernel-source but it just
> downloads it.
>
> I am a relative newcomer to Debian so my questions are:
>
> 1. any simple readme page or set of instructions to compile the kernel
> source so that i can get the madwifi drivers installed?
>
> 2. is there another simpler way to get the wireless card working?
>
> Thanks,
> Abhi
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