On Sunday 08 June 2008, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Jaime Tarrant wrote: > > * Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Hey folks, > >> > >> Has anyone had any luck with the ath5k driver? I've installed > >> linux-image-2.6.25-2-686. My /etc/network/interfaces file says: > > > > [snip] > > > >> When I say "ifup ath0", iwconfig reveals that ath0 is associated to my > >> AP, ifconfig looks right (as it should with a static config). dmesg > >> looks great too: > > > > [snip] > > > >> However, I can't ping my access point. > >> > >> Do I need some extra magic in /etc/network/interfaces? > >> > >> -- > >> Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG > >> ID:610BD9AD > > > > I had a hard time getting wireless working properly with atheros chipsets > > and then found the following site, which has a link to a script that has > > worked well for me on Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian laptops. > > > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=798485 > > > > I have not looked into what this script did differenly to what I was > > doing, however it certainly worked well for me. > > > > Only thing to consider is that you will probably have to re-run it each > > time you do a kernel upgrade, as the script automates building the > > drivers from the madwifi subversion repository against your running > > kernel. > > > > HTH - Jaime > > -- > > Jaime Tarrant > > http://www.tarsysco.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I guess that will work as works module-assistant. In my college I setted > up hundreds of this cards with module-assistant and madwifi-source, just: > > # apt-get install madwifi-source module-assistant > # m-a prepare > # m-a update > # m-a a-i madwifi > > Then I just made # iwconfig ath0 essid ESSID; dhclient ath0 and it was > done, I was surfing with wireless. > > Regards. > -- > Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118 > http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve > `ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es
That is the way that I install madwifi, BUT none of this answers the original question. Ath5k is the new binary firmware free driver for the Atheros wireless cards, and it is that he wants to use. I have not tried the ath5k driver yet, but I too would be very interested to hear from anyone who has made it work. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
