Re: where is ath9k?
Wayne Topa wrote:
> Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>> Wayne Topa wrote:
>>
>>> Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>>>> Wayne Topa wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wayne
>>>> None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to
>>>> David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but
>>>> still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing
>>>> (without being near a wifi hotpoitn) if the installed driver is the
>>>> correct one? Thanks again for all the help.
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>> Have you checked if your adapter works with madwifi? Check out the
>>> Compatibility page on the madwifi site <http://madwifi.org>. I have
>>> used, and am using, Netgear and D-Links cards. Be sure to watch for the
>>> version of your card. Many manufactures use different chips in the
>>> their cards without changing the Card part #, they just change the
>>> version. That's from someone who got bit by getting the wrong version
>>> number.
>>>
>>> Wayne
>> Hi Wayne,
>> So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413
>> which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be
>> acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci which was what I tried. This is part of the
>> 2.6.25 kernel so I'll modprobe that one and report back on the ifconfig
>> output to see if it's more like yours.
>> ...
>> aaarrrggghhhh!
>> This is not going to be easy, is it? When I try
>> #modprobe -v acer-wmi
>> I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such
>> device Back to square 1?
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan
>
> Try modprobe acer_wmi
>
> wtopa@dj:~$ grep -i acer /boot/config*
> /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m
>
>
> Wayne
Thank you Wayne,
I'll change that to /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m
cheers,
Jonathan
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