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From: daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:55:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ac129340902181655w589f82a7p719f191c4008d299@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090218221641.2dd03717@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

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2009/2/19 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:06:13 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:
>
> > I would love to hear from someone who managed a gentoo install on a 4G
> > SSHD with the onboard Atheros wifi chipset;also the ethernet would be
> > nice, it uses the L1e Gigabit chip, another Atheros product.
>
> Use a 2.6.28 kernel and enable ATH5K for wireless and ATL2 for wired.
>
>
> I'm using a 2.6.26 kernel without ATH5K enabled for an Atheros wireless LAN
card.

I'm using madwifi drivers straight from the madwifi project, and you can see
my simple instructions for installation at
http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=14920

This may not be as good a suggestion as the former, so I don't post it in
contradiction, but just as extra information.  My method works with kernels
at least as old at 2.6.20

~daid

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 22:06 [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo maxim wexler
2009-02-18 22:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-19  0:55   ` daid kahl [this message]
2009-02-19  1:19     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-21 21:25       ` maxim wexler
2009-02-21 22:53         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-28 23:10           ` maxim wexler
2009-03-01  0:09             ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-04 18:18               ` maxim wexler
2009-03-05  0:32                 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-22 20:36         ` Joshua Murphy
2009-02-22 20:57           ` Joshua Murphy
2009-02-22 21:00             ` Joshua Murphy
2009-02-19 16:53 ` Dirk Heinrichs

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