Re: Asus 900 EEEPC can't connect to access point

[Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@gmail.com>]

Actually I have 901 (ralink) myselft and thus I'm not sure the way
things work for 900.
try "lsmod | grep ath" to see whether the ath5k module is loaded.
google also says that it may help to purge the madwifi driver:
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/debian-user@lists.debian.org/12709624.html

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Matteo Riva <muradin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Did you try reading these manuals?
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/UseUpstreamAtherosModules
>
> Thanks for the pointers, I installed a new 2.6.30 kernel from backports,
> but I don't know how to enable the ath5k module.  The chipset appears in
> dmesg but no wlan interface is present.  Do I have to enable any
> particular module or tweak any other setting?
>
> Thanks
>