Wayne Topa wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Wayne Topa wrote: >> >>> Jonathan Kaye wrote: >>>> Wayne Topa wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. >>>>> >>>>> Wayne >>>> None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to >>>> David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but >>>> still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing >>>> (without being near a wifi hotpoitn) if the installed driver is the >>>> correct one? Thanks again for all the help. >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>> Have you checked if your adapter works with madwifi? Check out the >>> Compatibility page on the madwifi site <http://madwifi.org>. I have >>> used, and am using, Netgear and D-Links cards. Be sure to watch for the >>> version of your card. Many manufactures use different chips in the >>> their cards without changing the Card part #, they just change the >>> version. That's from someone who got bit by getting the wrong version >>> number. >>> >>> Wayne >> Hi Wayne, >> So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 >> which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must be >> acer-wmi and NOT ath_pci which was what I tried. This is part of the >> 2.6.25 kernel so I'll modprobe that one and report back on the ifconfig >> output to see if it's more like yours. >> ... >> aaarrrggghhhh! >> This is not going to be easy, is it? When I try >> #modprobe -v acer-wmi >> I get FATAL: Error inserting acer_wmi >> (/lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.ko): No such >> device Back to square 1? >> Cheers, >> Jonathan > > Try modprobe acer_wmi > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i acer /boot/config* > /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m > > > Wayne Thank you Wayne, I'll change that to /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686:CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/
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