>From: "John Pugh" <jpugh@NOVELL.COM>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: <slug@nks.net>
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] wifi card driver
>Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:12:17 -0600
>
>NDISwrapper is a very big pain to me...however some have no problem
>with it and it is a "simple" workaround.
>
>The atheros driver works well...what you might be able to do is find a
>binary distribution of it for use in specific distros...for instance
>SUSE 9.1+ has support for it with SUSE 9.2 and 9.3 having better
>support. IBM uses that chipset in their stinkpads...so they may have a
>driver stashed away on their site.
>
>The madwifi driver is the open source version for atheros chipsets,
>however, they only provide source...no binaries. You can download the
>source and compile it, but that isn't something that is always simple.
>
>JP
I'm not sure if it is included with Xandros or not but the Madwifi driver is
part of the linux-restricted-modules package in Ubuntu (all versions). I
have no personal experience setting it up that way though.
-Jonathon
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