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From: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:08:32 -0700
Subject: [ath9k-devel] development of the ath9k driver for linux
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:07:11PM -0700, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> 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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> > > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
> >
> > 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.

OK you now have a compat-wireless for older kernels (<= 2.6.26) with
ath9k.

  Luis