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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org