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

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

[fabio_souza at 3com.com]

Hello developers.

Greeting from Brazil.

My name is Fabio Souza, I'm a system engineer from 3Com Corp. in Brazil 
and I would like to know if someone on this list can help me. 

        As you can see on description below, 3Com Corp. has just released 
an Wireless 11g PCI adapter (with no Linux support :-/)  and now i'm 
trying to find the correct driver of this Wireless NIC to work with 
Debian/Ubuntu. 

3Com? Wireless 11g PCI Adapter  Product #: 3CRPCIG75-LAT
http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtype=purchase&sku=3CRPCIG75-LAT

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

Thank you so much for your attention and support,





"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com> 
Sent by: ath9k-devel-bounces at venema.h4ckr.net
08/29/2008 03:30 PM

To
patrick <puredata@11h11.com>
cc
ath9k-devel at venema.h4ckr.net
Subject
Re: [ath9k-devel] macbookpro unstable






On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14 AM, patrick <puredata@11h11.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i've downloaded
> 
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2

> and compile it. then make install and finally make unload (removing
> madwifi) and make load (loading many wireless driver).
>
> but then, no more wireless.
>
> my network controller is:
> 0b:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418
> 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
>
> i have this kernel:
> Linux pat-laptop 2.6.24-19-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Aug 21 02:08:03 UTC
> 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> what should i do to make it working?

compat-wireless doesn't have ath9k yet. I stopped letting the
automatic script pick up updates from wireless-testing as David Miller
introduced some difficult changes to backport on the struct
net_device, this is the new TX multiqueue support. You can get ath9k
working with compat-wireless but you need to add it yourself. I will
eventually just add it and fork out a release of compat-wireless with
it and start a-new with compat-wireless fresh for kernels >= 2.6.27.

If you'd like to help test ath9k for now I can recommend to get
wireless-testing or use the rc release of 2.6.27.

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

[Sebastian Henrich]

Hello,

at the moment you have 2 opportunities to get AR5008 to work. You can 
replace your kernel and use wireless-testing or you keep your kernel and 
get the trunk via svn from madwifi.org. I'm using madwifi at the moment 
because I don't want to change my distributions kernel. Since ath9k is 
not in wireless-compat I'm unable to compile ath9k with my current kernel.

Regards

  Sebastian

fabio_souza at 3com.com schrieb:
>
> Hello developers.
>
> Greeting from Brazil.
>
> My name is Fabio Souza, I'm a system engineer from 3Com Corp. in 
> Brazil and I would like to know if someone on this list can help me.
>
>         As you can see on description below, 3Com Corp. has just 
> released an Wireless 11g PCI adapter (with no Linux support :-/)  and 
> now i'm trying to find the correct driver of this Wireless NIC to work 
> with Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> 3Com? Wireless 11g PCI Adapter  Product #: 3CRPCIG75-LAT
> http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtype=purchase&sku=3CRPCIG75-LAT 
>
>
>         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). I've tryed to load the madwifiv0.9.4 driver but 
> without success (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.    
>
> Thank you so much for your attention and support,
>
>
>
>
> *"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>*
> Sent by: ath9k-devel-bounces at venema.h4ckr.net
>
> 08/29/2008 03:30 PM
>
> 	
> To
> 	patrick <puredata@11h11.com>
> cc
> 	ath9k-devel at venema.h4ckr.net
> Subject
> 	Re: [ath9k-devel] macbookpro unstable
>
>
>
> 	
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14 AM, patrick <puredata@11h11.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i've downloaded
> > 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
> > and compile it. then make install and finally make unload (removing
> > madwifi) and make load (loading many wireless driver).
> >
> > but then, no more wireless.
> >
> > my network controller is:
> > 0b:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418
> > 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
> >
> > i have this kernel:
> > Linux pat-laptop 2.6.24-19-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Aug 21 02:08:03 UTC
> > 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > what should i do to make it working?
>
> compat-wireless doesn't have ath9k yet. I stopped letting the
> automatic script pick up updates from wireless-testing as David Miller
> introduced some difficult changes to backport on the struct
> net_device, this is the new TX multiqueue support. You can get ath9k
> working with compat-wireless but you need to add it yourself. I will
> eventually just add it and fork out a release of compat-wireless with
> it and start a-new with compat-wireless fresh for kernels >= 2.6.27.
>
> If you'd like to help test ath9k for now I can recommend to get
> wireless-testing or use the rc release of 2.6.27.
>
>  Luis
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[ath9k-devel] Fw: AR5008 (5416) driver for 3Com PCI 3CRPCIG75-LAT

[Mats Johannesson]

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

Mvh
Mats Johannesson