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Re: ath5k-based card not working



On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Gavin Kinsey <gavin@trollgod.org.uk> wrote:
> It doesn't work yet with the ath5k in the kernel, the madwifi driver in sid
> works fine on my laptop which has the same card.  Latest I've heard is
> there are patches to ath5k for support of this model and the hope is that
> they will get in to 2.6.27 but if not then 2.6.28.

Thanks, worked for me too.

> Alternatively there is a compat-wireless tarball that is reported to work
> available if you don't want to use a non-free driver until then.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org/msg00955.html

I didn't know madwifi was non-free... ?

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