Re: Debian and Atheros Wireless card

[jiri svoboda <svoji@centrum.dk>]

abhishek soni 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
been there, done that

copy a working kernel from Knoppix; easy / simple => smart
Knoppix 3.6 - kernel 2.6.7
Knoppix 3.7 - kernel 2.4.27

/ Jiri