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ath9k debs for Hardy
Ubuntuforums user, volanin, has kindly backported the wireless-testing portion of the kernel and bundled it with the new ath9k driver for Atheros cards in a deb and posted it in the Apple Users forum. Now hardy users with 802.11n Atheros cards should be able to enjoy a completely free driver! Here is the relevant post. Enjoy
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...69&postcount=5
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madwifi achieves this as well.
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This is odd that you guys are saying it's wireless N ... I compiled a brand new kernel with ath9k built in the kernel, and it only got me 1mbps with wireless G ... this is depressing. The kernel worked wonderfully, but the problem is that the speeds only got me 27kbps VS. my usual 550kbps and 6mbps through my LAN.
Perhaps I simply failed, but I was excited to try this driver. Perhaps I'll try that deb ...
If any of you are interested, it's a 2.6.27-rc2 AMD64 kernel. I have the debs handy if anyone is interested.
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This IS madwifi... at least what will replace madwifi...Originally Posted by TDragon
madwifi has not supported the Atheros cards in the Intel Macs for a long time (had to compile code from svn).
It supported Atheros' n-series cards. ath9k 'will' support 802.11n eventually if it doesn't already. the 1mbps reported connection is a known bug (and is not your real connection speed), although it doesn't sound like you have slow throughput for some reason.
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Is this thread Mac specific?
Ktechman
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Hmm, I wish I had found this forum sooner. Anyway, my HP dv5z has an Atheros AR5009 a/b/g/n wifi card which apparently uses an AR9280 chipset, and I found the ath9k source and compiled it myself. I installed Ubuntu 8.04LTS then compiled a 2.6.26.3 kernel, then grabbed the compat tarball from here
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
Then I used git to retrieve the wireless-testing tree and get the ath9k source, since it's not currently included in the compat source. After copying the ath9k source into the compat tree, a few files failed to compile because they were using some functions that were newly added to the 2.7 <linux/list.h> header. I copied the missing functions into my 2.6 <linux/list.h> and now I have a working driver. I haven't had any problems with it at all, in 802.11g mode with a Linksys WRT. I don't actually have any 802.11n gear yet, so no idea how well that works.
Last edited by highlandsun; August 23rd, 2008 at 08:47 AM.
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If you're running a 2.6.27 kernel (which is included in ubuntu 8.10) then the ath9k driver is already present, so none of this work is needed. I posted my patches for ath9k support to the linux-wireless mailing list http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m...0907531656&w=2 and they've already been integrated into the compat package.
So now all you have to do is follow the instructions on this page http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download and use the compat-wireless-2.6-old tarball.
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I can't wait for the next alpha of ubuntu to release
I really wana test this out. I've never had out of the box wifi support before
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NullHead,
Just installed alpha 4 and could not get wireless working "out of the box". I also applied several updates but it did not help. It did however "see" my wireless network but it failed to connect. Back to Hardy.
Ktechman
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alpha4 also ships with a new NetworkManager 0.7, which also has quite a few bugs. I posted a fix for my connection issues here http://mail.gnome.org/archives/netwo.../msg00224.html but you may be seeing others. Regardless, the ath9k driver connects fine for me on 802.11g; if your kernel didn't have multiqueue support configured in it may not work on 802.11n.
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