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psyspy80

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From: London

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 21

IBM X31, atheros wireless card, ath5k driver

Hi,

I am using an IBM X31 laptop which has wifi card with atheros chip installed. This card works fine with madwifi, however, i wanted to know if i could get it working the new ath5k driver (http://madwifi.org/wiki/About/ath5k). Is it possible? If yes, does anyone know how?

Thx

psyspy80

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: IBM X31, atheros wireless card, ath5k driver

The details are all in that wiki, specifically in the 'Users' section. Currently, the driver can only be compiled as part of a kernel build. You can either build your own wireless-git kernel, or you can try the -mm kernel, which includes ath5k.

As it happens, I am close to uploading the latest -mm kernel package to the unstable repo, so if you can hang on a bit, you can use that (the usual -mm health warnings apply, of course).

psyspy80

Member

From: London

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 21

Re: IBM X31, atheros wireless card, ath5k driver

Thank you very much tomk .

You said all there is. Please post back once there is a driver which does not require compiling a wireless-2.6 git kernel.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: IBM X31, atheros wireless card, ath5k driver

Well.. you might consider just keeping an eye on that website, so you can find out for yourself.