[ath9k-devel] development of the ath9k driver for linux

[Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:44:33AM -0700, L?onard Kai Sch?nitz wrote:
> Am Montag, 1. September 2008 19.08:10 schrieb micha:
> > hello linux-specialists,
> >
> > i am a linux greenhorn and tried to download and konfig the beta-driver
> > onto my laptop working with ubuntu 8.04.1 "hardy heron".
> >
> > it took me about 7 hours, trying to get my damned WLAN-Adapter working.
> > finally... i gave up and went for a couple of beers. i have the Atheros
> > Communications Inc. AR5418 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev
> > 01)
> >
> > not only all the (for a fairly experienced win xp user) new commands,
> > also the install routine seems to be pretty complicated.
> >
> > is it possible to build this beta-driver into an automatic install
> > routine like many other drivers in ubuntu?
> >
> > that would make my life much easier. ;-)
> >
> > thanks for listening to me, folks.
> >
> > regards from germany,
> >
> > michael swoboda
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> You probably don't want that beta driver anyway. It still seems to be a bit
> unstable. The SVN branch of madwifi-ng supports your card. I think this would
> be the better choice to go for you. You have to install subversion over your
> apt and then check out this branch:
> "svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk madwifi"
> cd to the dir, make; make install; modprobe ath_pci and there you go.

You should use what your distribution supports, if you are using Ubuntu
then know that Intrepid will have ath9k support. If you are on Hardy and
want ath9k I will soon supply a compat-wireless tarball with ath9k in
it. In the end you're probably better off upgrading to Intrepid as I
think they are testing 2.6.27 right now.

  Luis