A. den Oudsten wrote:
Hans Krueger schreef:
A. den Oudsten wrote:
Ed Harrison schreef:
A. den Oudsten wrote:
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...
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
You need to install make and gcc. zypper -n in make gcc
Ed
I installed make and tried again. After make I got: Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.25.11-0.1-default/build/.config does not exist.. And indeed in /lib/modules/2.6.25.11-0.1-default/build/ I only found dumpfile.config and Module.symvers. I'm one step further but I must say this matter is rather resistant!!! Any suggestions? André is this your first time compiling ?
Years ago, in the times of opensuse 7? I did it once. André keep following the help from the list and you will get their
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