Hi all, I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over the drivers and released the code. It seems I need an ath9k driver and that I get it from atheros. This led me to the Linux Wireless website. I found a link to the ath9k driver here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#Getthecode The link on the above page is: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download and of course that link is broken. Aaarggghhh. I then followed this link http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download and found the compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 tarball. I got the latest version which (I think) was 6 August 2008. I followed the instructions and built the drivers but no ath9k! aaarrggghhhh. I loaded the drivers per the instructions and there is mac80211 and ath5k but no ath9k. At this link http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k I found the following instructions: Enabling ath9k To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211: I'm not sure what "enable" means in this context but I modprobed mac80211 and it shows up in the lsmod list. Next came the very cryptic instructions: Networking ---> Wireless ---> <M> Improved wireless configuration API <M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211) This seems to involve some sort of software but I haven't a clue what it wants me to do. I am in a hopeless muddle now.
Can anyone give me some hints here. Thanks, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
