Hi Ghaith,
I have no problems with a Cisco Aironet AIR-CB21AG-E-K9 Card under
linux, which is an Atheros chipset. I prefer my other wireless cards,
but this one's fine for checking 802.11a networks.
Try downloading a recent live cd (i prefer kanotix from www.kanotix.de)
and booting with that. I can guarantee that kanotix will properly
recognize atheros cards. Then you can see what the drivers are called,
and compile them on your normal installed system no matter what distro.
Or just search google for "atheros linux." The second and third hits are
both good. I use madwifi drivers, but vt_ar5k drivers should be fine as
well.
Cheers,
Chris
Ghaith Nasrawi wrote:
some of you mentioned that they have 802.11a cards working under
linux! All the 802.11a cards I've come across used Atheros chipsets,
and I couldn't find linux drivers for any of them. How about you guys?
also, did any of you find drivers for these intel chipsets that
built-in with few laptops.
cheers,
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That part of Eternity with some small fraction of
which we have a slight and regrettable
acquaintance. A moving line called the Present
parts it from an imaginary period known as the
Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of
which the one is continually effacing the other,
are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow
and disappointment, the other bright with
prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of
sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one
crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes,
mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of
the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning
to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the
Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the
Past of to-morrow. They are one -- the knowledge
and the dream. (The Devil's Dictionary)
