[ath9k-devel] Fw: AR5008 (5416) driver for 3Com PCI 3CRPCIG75-LAT

[Mats Johannesson <spamcan1@abrasax.se>]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:38:37 -0200 fabio_souza wrote:
[...]
> 3Com? Wireless 11g PCI Adapter  Product #: 3CRPCIG75-LAT
> http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtype=purchase&sku=3CRPCIG75-LAT

Very strange. A pure 11b/g product...

[...]
>         After install the device and perform a lspci command, ubuntu
> shows the information of the chip AR5008 (which as far as I know is
> the chipset 5416).

With 11n chipset...

> I've tryed to load the madwifiv0.9.4 driver but without success

That version is too old for the 5416. You'd have to get their trunk
driver. A working version, which I used, was called madwifi-ng before,
but they now seem to have skipped that designation. Look in
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-trunk/ for a tarball or use
subversion http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/GettingMadwifi

The whole madwifi thing is very confusing. Prepare to browse around and
read for some hours to get the best deal...

> (I think that I'll have to use the ath9k instead).
> So, I'd like to know if someone on this list could  help me sending
> the ath9k driver built-in on an automatic install routine or the
> instructions of how to install it.

Heh... Best driver for now, in my opinion, is to compile a
"stable" bleeding edge kernel. 2.6.27-rc5 is very good - I use it
myself. There is no pre-built or automatic ways other than getting your
hands dirty.

Btw, don't use html-mail while communicating in the linux community. I
had to fish your mail from a folder I call "HTML-delete" (deleted
automatically when I close the mail-client)

And don't include a footer like the:
> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any [...]

It is very much frowned upon in the linux world...

Mvh
Mats Johannesson