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["A. den Oudsten" <AdenOudsten@xxxxxx>]

Hans Krueger schreef:
> A. den Oudsten wrote:
> > David C. Rankin wrote:
> >
> > > A. den Oudsten wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have an Acer Aspire 5315
> > > > I was able to connect my Atheros AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI 
> > > > Express Adapter to the Wifi source with the help of a driver 
> > > > net5211.inf I found on 
> > > > ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_4710/driver/Wireless_Atheros.zip. 
> > > >
> > > > The Aspire 5351 went for repair of the DVD drive and when it came 
> > > > back there was the Atheros AR242x 802.11 abg Wireless PCI Express 
> > > > Adapter and what ever I tried with ndiswrapper and NDISGTK the 
> > > > driver net5211.inf was not accepted.
> > > > Any suggestion where and how I can get a proper driver?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > André den Oudsten
> > >
> > >
> > > Links 2,3 & 5 from google "Atheros AR242 linux":
> > >
> > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=756318
> > >
> > > http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=756318
> > >
> > > http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=756318&page=2
> > >
> > > I haven't read them, but they look promising. I have also had the 
> > > best luck with madwifi drivers from:
> > >
> > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/schmolle1980
> > Thanks for the suggestions, but they did not bring me to a solution.
> >
> > Since then I tried to install with NDISGTK the following XP drivers 
> > from the Acer site:
> >
> > netathr.inf; Invalid driver
> >
> > netathrx.inf; Invalid driver
> >
> > netw4k32.inf; Hardware present: No
> >
> > netw4x32.inf; Invalid driver
> >
> > netw4x64.inf; Hardware present: No
> >
> > From 'hwinfo –netcard' I got:
> >
> > Model: "Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter"
> >
> > Driver Status: ath5k is active
> >
> > Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath5k"
> >
> > Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
> >
> > Attached to: #19 (PCI bridge)
> >
> >
> > From the madwifi site I learned that ath5k is the successor of madwifi.
> >
> >
> > What else can I do?
> >
> > André den Oudsten
> do what I did
> http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604.tar.gz 
>
>
> You'll need to compile and install it, as described in README and
> INSTALL files in the source code.
>
> and uninstall the ath5k
> good luck
I followed the instructions in First Time User HOWTO and after entering
make I got as reply:
bash: command not found

I was a little embarrassed!!

What can I do?

André

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