From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mhub5.vim.at ([92.43.99.6]:57009 "EHLO mail.vim.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756140Ab0BAUcb (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:32:31 -0500 Subject: Re: ath9k/PCI 168C:002C From: Bernhard Reiter To: Pavel Roskin Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20100201113620.52ahuc39ws8scow4-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> References: <1265039522.3610.55.camel@razor> <20100201113620.52ahuc39ws8scow4-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:32:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1265056347.3610.100.camel@razor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: thanks for your hints! unfortunately, as you expected, simply adding the PCI id doesn't do the trick. seems like a couple of people tried it already: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/atheros-ar5b95-geht-unter-unr-9-10-nicht/ (in German). i haven't tried madwifi yet, though. regards, bernhard Am Montag, den 01.02.2010, 11:36 -0500 schrieb Pavel Roskin: > Quoting Bernhard Reiter : > > > hi, > > > > i'm currently setting up karmic (64bit) an asus eeepc 1005p, and i've > > found the following in the debian wiki: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005P > > i'm giving this laptop to another person on wednesday, but until then, i > > might try to compile the ath9k module with the suggested addition of > > that PCI id. > > You can add the ID at the runtime: > > echo "168c 002c" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ath9k/new_id > > > unfortunately, i haven't really found anything on how to do this (in a > > least-invasive fashion). i've looked > > into /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-17/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k, > > but there's only a Kconfig and a Makefile, but no sources. > > You should be able to compile compat-wireless on Ubuntu. Then you can > modify ath9k in the compat-wireless sources. But I'm not optimistic. > The wiki link suggests that further changes to the driver are needed. > > You can also try MadWifi trunk to support the device. It should > compile out-of-box. You can use the same trick to add the ID, just > replace "ath9k" with "ath_pci". >