-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Tarrant wrote: > * Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> Has anyone had any luck with the ath5k driver? I've installed >> linux-image-2.6.25-2-686. My /etc/network/interfaces file says: >> > [snip] >> When I say "ifup ath0", iwconfig reveals that ath0 is associated to my >> AP, ifconfig looks right (as it should with a static config). dmesg >> looks great too: >> > [snip] >> However, I can't ping my access point. >> >> Do I need some extra magic in /etc/network/interfaces? >> >> -- >> Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG >> ID:610BD9AD >> >> > > I had a hard time getting wireless working properly with atheros chipsets and > then found the following site, which has a link to a script that has worked > well for me on Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian laptops. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=798485 > > I have not looked into what this script did differenly to what I was doing, > however it certainly worked well for me. > > Only thing to consider is that you will probably have to re-run it each time > you do a kernel upgrade, as the script automates building the drivers from > the madwifi subversion repository against your running kernel. > > HTH - Jaime > -- > Jaime Tarrant > http://www.tarsysco.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I guess that will work as works module-assistant. In my college I setted up hundreds of this cards with module-assistant and madwifi-source, just:
# apt-get install madwifi-source module-assistant # m-a prepare # m-a update # m-a a-i madwifi Then I just made # iwconfig ath0 essid ESSID; dhclient ath0 and it was done, I was surfing with wireless. Regards. - -- Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118 http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve `ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFITBYiOKCtW8rKsRgRAtawAJ9dDo4A9PY0FF7KhOpB/PuFYVj7bQCgh2+n 46b9i6oAprQGkMZxZ/FCHQw= =su02 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
