Driver available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi . Works great, dont know if the 802.11a works because i have no way to test it as of yet, but b works fine, supports multiple data rates including the 802.11b+(22Mbs) etc. (also havent tested). Not real hard to install, prolly will have to recompile your kernel though.

EDIT: Im having some trouble with wep on 802.11b but its quite possibly my router cuase whats happening makes very little sense.

A few quick questions.

This is my first wireless venture in linux. i think i am missing something simple

I have a smc2335w 802.11a/b card. in accordance to my research, i CVS myself a copy of the atheros madwifi drivers. they compile and install just fine under my slack9.1 fresh install.

i have the wireless tools tgz installed also.

my issue is this: if i do a 'ifconfig ath0 up' and then a n 'iwlist ath0 scan' i can see my Access Point listed! i do a 'iwconfig ath0 essid "xxx"' and 'iwpriv ath0 mode 1' and i can't surf.

the only thing that looks strange is when i do an lsmod, my ath_hal and wlan modules are loaded, but my ath_pci is "unused". what does that mean?

i think i have all the pieces here, its just the configuration that stumps me :(