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 <ockham@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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". > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
