ath9k debs for Hardy

[NullHead]

What's this!! Alpha5 isn't out yet

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing

* Alpha 4 - Released August 14th, 2008
* Alpha 3 - Released July 24th, 2008
* Alpha 2 - Released July 11th, 2008
* Alpha 1 - Released June 27th, 2008

Note the lack of Alpha 5s in that list.

[ktechman]

NullHead,

Is there any way to get the ath9k driver to function on the AR9281 chipset with Ndiswrapper and preserve my present wired driver or are they joined at the hip? Thank you for your reply, Ktechman

[NullHead]

I would suspect that is possible.

I guess I'm not understanding your question correctly.

So you want ath9k, ndiswrapper, and the driver for your wired device to all dwell on the same machine at the same time?

That is possible with the modprobe command + the module you want to modprobe. To unload a driver, e.g. ndiswrapper, sudo rmmod ndiswrapper.

For this particular setup, on my laptop it has ndiswrapper, b43legacy, ssb, b44 all modprobed at the same time. This will cause ndiswrapper to fail and not work properly. So I have to rmmod b44, b43, b43legacy and ssb before I can load ndiswrapper.

I'd check your lsmod, list of loaded modules, and look for the modules that you want to load and unload.

[ktechman]

Thank you for your reply, seeing that once again this is way over my head I guess my alternative is to wait for a how-to. I thought the "big" news was that Atheros deployed a couple of very capable people to provide a driver for this chipset. All I have seen so far is work on the ath5k driver even the new releases dated 2008-09-05 only show support for the ath5k driver.

[NullHead]

Well I'm excited that the new atheros direct FOSS driver, ath9k, will/should be in the next ubuntu kernel, which should give out of the box support for almost every atheros card made.

[ktechman]

Will there be any way to implement it into Hardy?

[NullHead]

You can try this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...69&postcount=5

I've never tried it, but I did actually get ath9k in hardy before with a custom kernel.

I'd drop my connection almost every 20 min.

[ktechman]

I tried that and had very little success. Sigh... I guess that I will be waiting for the Intrepid release + a month or so for all of the bugs to be worked out. Thank you for your response to my questions. Ktechman

[NullHead]

You could always try using the alpha5 that was released yesterday. That had the new ath9k in the kernel included.

It "should" just work out of the box.