From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mats Johannesson Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:39:40 +0200 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Fw: AR5008 (5416) driver for 3Com PCI 3CRPCIG75-LAT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20080901233940.08dd47c8@loke.fish.not> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org 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